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Senate Intelligence Committee members didn't lay a glove on Brennan.
Questions and answers were largely pro forma. Bipartisan complicity supports America's war on terror. It's illegitimate. It's extrajudicial. It's a fabricated hoax. It's done to wage war on humanity.
Drone killings are prioritized. They're instruments of state terror. They sanitize killing on the cheap. They murder innocent men, women, children, and infants. They do so extrajudicially.
Media scoundrels misreported. The New York Times headlined "Senators Press Brennan About CIA's Drone Strikes," saying:
They questioned him on secrecy and legality issues. Brennan was largely noncommittal. His opening statement acknowledged "widespread debate" about administration counterterrorism policies.
He strongly defended them. He said America's "at war with Al Qaeda." He defended extrajudicial killings. He claimed they save lives and prevent potential terror attacks.
He said "lethal operations are generally the sole responsibility of the executive branch." He called civilian deaths mistakes. He lied. Senators let him get away with it. So did The Times.
He left unsaid key information jointly prepared by Stanford University's International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic (SU) and New York University School of Law's Global Justice Clinic (NYU). Its report is titled "Living Under Drones."
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