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Brennan's a war criminal multiple times over. He should be rejected out of hand. He should be prosecuted for high crimes. Code Pink protesters interrupted his confirmation.
They called him a "national security threat," a "traitor to democracy," and "war criminal." Chairwoman Feinstein ordered them forcibly removed.
"The witness is entitled to be heard," she said.
Ahead of Brennan's hearing, White House press secretary Jay Carney defended targeted killings. Doing so makes him complicit. He called them "legal, ethical and wise."
" Sometimes we use remotely piloted aircraft to conduct targeted strikes against specific al-Qaeda terrorists in order to prevent attacks on the United States and to save American lives," he said."We conduct those strikes because they are necessary to mitigate ongoing actual threats, to stop plots, to prevent future attacks and, again, save American lives. These strikes are legal, they are ethical, and they are wise," he added.
A leaked unsigned/undated Justice Department " white paper " titled "Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a US Citizen who is a Senior Operational Leader of Al Qa'ida or An Associated Force" inverted inviolable legal principles.
It said "(t)argeting a member of an enemy force who poses an imminent threat of violent attack to the United States is not unlawful. It is a lawful act of self-defense.""The condition that an operational leader present an 'imminent' threat of violent attack against the United States does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on US persons and interests will take place in the immediate future."
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