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Administrations effort to cleanse itself of the boots on the ground danger. cleanse itself of a place where to put these people we have no place, we have no tents. >> paul: we have guantanamo. >> but they dont want to use it. >> here is clean, completely if they could get away without bringing down all of it on their heads. i have to say, one has a sense of kind of just cause in this outburst of trouble that they are in right now. >> paul: you dont agree with the critics of the drone program do ...

Americas drone warfare got a public airing yesterday as president obamas pick to head the cia went before senators at his confirmation hearing. john brennan defended the program of which hes been called the chief architect. >> i think there is a misimpression on the part of some american people who believe that we take strikes to punish terrorists for past transgressions. nothing could be further from the truth. we only take such actions as a last resort to save lives when theres no other altern...

Mitigate that threat. so we need to make sure theres an understanding, and the people that were standing up here today, i think they really have a misunderstanding of what we do as a government and the care that we take and the agony that we go through to make sure that we do not have any collateral injuries or deaths. >> well, brennans testimony had been interrupted there you see by code pink five times, by anti-war protesters called code pink. polls show for the most part those protesters out ...

The program of which hes been called the chief architect. >> i think there is a misimpression on the part of some american people who believe that we take strikes to punish terrorists for past transgressions. nothing could be further from the truth. we only take such actions as a last resort to save lives when theres no other alternative to taking an action thats going to mitigate that threat. so we need to make sure theres an understanding, and the people that were standing up here today, i thi...

Welcome back to "hardball." americas drone warfare got a public airing yesterday as president obamas pick to head the cia went before senators at his confirmation hearing. john brennan strongly defended the program of which hes been called the chief architect. >> i think there is a misimpression on the part of some american people who believe that we take strikes to punish terrorists for past transgressions. nothing could be further from the truth. we only take such actions as a last resort to s...

On wednesday, the senate intelligence committees confirmation hearing for cia nominee john brennan got off to a rocky start when protesters from the activist group code pink for peace said their peace. >> they wont even tell congress what country we are killing children in. senator finestein -- >> if you could expedite the removal -- >> and it is more important of the children in pakistan and yemen and are they more important? do your job! >> code pink like john brennan has been a public fixture...

Protest the impending war in iraq, and thursday, they held up red painted hands on behalf of mothers who have lost children in yemen and pakistan and somalia and all place where is the obama administrations drone program has touched down. but it was not just code pink who was questioning the controversial program. the brennan hearing has opened up a bigger debate of the administrations current military tactics. so im like a little bit that the drones become a mean for liberals to scream drones, ...

Speech volley back and forth about water boarding in 2009? it would be hard and a little bit difficult to admit that you were wrong then. but i think that they could save themselves a lot of communication angst by just saying to the reporters, look, we understand why youre calling us out for hypocrisy. youre right. president obama thought that torture was wrong. he have still does. it might look hypocritical four the president is committed to saving the american people and thats what were going ...

Capitol hill right now. president obamas pick for defense secretary might actually prefer an old code pink filibuster over the surprising delay he is stuck in now. the chuck hagel nomination seemed like it was done. enough republicans had said they would support mr. hagels nomination. enough republicans had agreed that they should not filibuster him. but he looked ready to be confirmed by the senate. but now it is not clear when that vote might happen, even though if the -- even though the outco...

Owen, who emigrated from ireland nearly 65 years ago -- >> and mr. brennan, if you dont know who they are, i have a list. i have a list of all the names and the -- >> all right. im going to -- were going to halt the hearing. im going to ask that the room be cleared and that the code pink associates not be permitted to come back in. weve done this five times now and five times are enough. >> five times will be plenty for you code pink associates. associates? i wonder if that is the hierarchy. sen...