{"id":1318,"date":"2013-02-22T15:22:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T15:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2013-02-22T15:22:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T15:22:15","slug":"rand-paul-to-hold-up-brennans-cia-nomination-over-drone-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/02\/22\/rand-paul-to-hold-up-brennans-cia-nomination-over-drone-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul to hold up Brennan\u2019s CIA nomination over drone strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_autopost\">\n<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<p>Sen. Rand Paul said Thursday that he would \u201cuse every procedural option\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Mr. Brennan on Thursday, Mr. Paul, Kentucky Republican, said that Mr. Brennan evaded answering a key question about the administration\u2019s drone policy during a confirmation hearing this month before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In written responses filed with the committee later, Mr. Brennan said the administration \u201chas not carried out\u201d such strikes and \u201chas no intention of doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not find this response sufficient,\u201d Mr. Paul said in his letter to Mr. Brennan. \u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Paul said President Obama also had \u201cavoided [answering] this question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe evasive replies to this valid question from the Administration have only confused the issue further without getting us any closer to an actual answer,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Full article: <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/feb\/21\/paul-halt-brennan-cia-nomination-drone-strikes\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/feb\/21\/paul-halt-brennan-cia-nomination-drone-strikes\/\">http:\/\/www.washingto \u2026 ation-drone-strikes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rand Paul said Thursday that he would \u201cuse every procedural option\u201d 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\u2019s 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 \u201chas not carried out\u201d such strikes and \u201chas no intention of doing so.\u201d \u201cI do not find this response sufficient,\u201d Mr. Paul said in his letter to Mr. Brennan. \u201cThe 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.\u201d Mr. Paul said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[342,1425],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-brennan","tag-rand-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}