John Brennan
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 11:CIA Director John Brennan appears before a House Select Intelligence committee hearing on Capitol Hill, April 11, 2013 in Washington, DC. The committee is hearing testimony on worldwide threats facing the United States.
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No. Despite repeated promises from President Obama and the new CIA director John Brennan and the Attorney General Eric Holder during a hearing before the Senate, the (Obama) administration has not taken any efforts to increase transparency.More quotes »
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Hearing begins on fine for Ore. airport stripper
testimony before a federal administrative court judge on Tuesday, TSA workers and an airport officer described how John Brennan disrobed -- an act caught on smartphones and relayed on the Internet.Brennan is expected to testify Tuesday afternoon.On April 17, Read more »
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Senator's filibuster on CIA nominee divides GOP
-- Republicans split bitterly Thursday over a GOP senator's old-school filibuster of President Barack Obama's CIA nominee John Brennan amid claims that the administration could use drones to target Americans suspected of terrorism.Just hours after Sen. Rand Read more »
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Rand Paul filibuster blocks vote for John Brennan nomination to CIA top spot
of the Obama administration's drone policy mounted a self-described filibuster Wednesday to block Senate confirmation of John Brennan to take over as director of the CIA.Sen. Rand Paul , R-Ky., took the floor shortly before noon. With intermittent support Read more »
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Senator says panel to vote next week on CIA pick
-- The Senate Intelligence Committee is scheduled to vote early next week on John Brennan's nomination to be director of the CIA, the panel's Republican vice chairman said Thursday.Democratic leaders of the committee had hoped to hold the vote Thursday. But Read more »
Around the web
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U.S. Drone-Policy Shift Alters Relations Overseas
White House said in a statement.The new language is more restrictive than the policy declared in an April 2012 speech by John Brennan, then White House counterterrorism chief and now director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He said it was legitimate to 5/24/13 from Wall Street Journal Read more »
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Obama Talks Drones, Gitmo in Speech
Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Senate Democrats pushed Wednesday for speedy confirmation of John Brennan's nomination to be CIA director but ran into a snag after a Paul began a lengthy speech over the legality of potential from AOL Small Business Read more »
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DC Cronyism: sliming your way up the chain of command
obscure November 2012 Wikileaks email dump points to former White House counterterrorism adviser and now-CIA chief John Brennan as the person behind the “witch hunt” of journalists who reported unflattering Obama administration leaks. A little over a week from protein wisdom Read more »
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What we've learned from the Obama administration's past drone speeches
though the fact that many of these strikes are conducted by remotely piloted vehicles wasn't acknowledged until a speech by John Brennan in May 2012. That justification rests on the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force against al Qaeda, which, in the from Foreign Policy Read more »
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Give President Obama a chance: there is a role for drones | Michael Cohen
dozens of al Qaida members off the battlefield and has done so with minimal civilian deaths. Indeed, current CIA director John Brennan publicly claimed in 2011 that there had not been a "single collateral death" from US drone strikes in the previous year. from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
