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  • Rand Paul Will Stall Brennan Even Without A Filibuster

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    Rand Paul promised to try to block John Brennan’s confirmation as CIA director, either with a filibuster or by recruiting his friends on the Senate Intelligence Committee during an interview with WABC Radio’s Aaron Klein that will air on Sunday night.

    “I will do everything I can to stop him and I told him I will filibuster it,” Paul said. “Unfortunately I am not enough. You know, it takes 41. And we could not hold 41 together on the Hagel nomination. So my guess is I will not get 41.”

    Paul explained his strategy for blocking Brennan via the committee vote.

    “My best chance though is that I have allies in the Committee,” Paul said. “The Intelligence Committee is pretty powerful on these things. And the CIA realizes that and the president has to deal with the intelligence committee. If the Intelligence Committee will continue to object and ask my question, Brennan will not come forward. They have the power to hold his nomination. And right now, see he was supposed to be approved by the committee last Thursday and they moved it to this Tuesday. So that means that I have a very good chance the White House will be forced to respond.”

    Paul is demanding answers to his questions about drone strikes within U.S. territory, and predicted that the White House would provide them on Monday.

    “When John Brennan has been asked, he says that there are no geographical limitations to the use of drones strikes,” Paul said. “And so the follow up question is, obviously, does that mean even the U.S. border is not a geographical limitation?”

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  • Rand Paul to hold up Brennan’s CIA nomination over drone strikes

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    Sen. Rand Paul said Thursday that he would “use every procedural option” at his disposal to block the confirmation of White House counterterrorism adviser John O. Brennan to become CIA director if the Obama administration keeps dodging questions about its policy on lethal drone strikes against terrorism suspects, including Americans.

    In a letter to Mr. Brennan on Thursday, Mr. Paul, Kentucky Republican, said that Mr. Brennan evaded answering a key question about the administration’s drone policy during a confirmation hearing this month before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

    During the hearing, Mr. Brennan was asked whether the Obama administration asserts the authority to carry out such lethal drone strikes on U.S. territory.

    In written responses filed with the committee later, Mr. Brennan said the administration “has not carried out” such strikes and “has no intention of doing so.”

    “I do not find this response sufficient,” Mr. Paul said in his letter to Mr. Brennan. “The question that I and many others have asked is not whether the Administration has or intends to carry out drone strikes inside the United States, but whether it believes it has the authority to do so. This is an important distinction.”

    Mr. Paul said President Obama also had “avoided [answering] this question.”

    “The evasive replies to this valid question from the Administration have only confused the issue further without getting us any closer to an actual answer,” he wrote.

    Full article: http://www.washingto … ation-drone-strikes/


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