Yesterday, Rand Paul embarked upon a nearly 12-hour-long standing filibuster. The filibuster’s ostensible purpose and practical effect was to delay a vote on John Brennan’s nomination to head the CIA. It’s real purpose, though, was to force Attorney General Eric Holder to answer a straightforward question: “Does the President have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil?” ...
...Paul not only managed to derail the scheduled vote for John Brennan, he forced Eric Holder to answer his question [with a 'no'.]
As Senator Ted Cruz, a renowned litigator, observed last night, Holder's obfuscations and deflections are outrageous. The question isn't a difficult one:
If a citizen of the United States is, say, sitting in a cafe inside the country -- not posing an imminent threat to anyone -- does the president have the authority to order a drone strike and assassinate that person?
Of course not. Any pre-law student could tell you that.
As for antique media? For the most part, they completely ignored this historic question and resulting filibuster of the ostensible CIA director, just as they censored news of Operation Fast and Furious and Benghazi-gate.
The basic information surrounding these deadly scandals, which resulted in the murders of at least a half-dozen U.S. officials -- has never been released by the Obama administration.
And legacy media could care less.
Which is why I use BadBlue News to go around the media. I don't need any progressive Statists censoring my news.
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