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Rockets against the palestinian targets as long as hamas is flying rockets at israel. diplomacy is building up slowly and far too slowly for the palestinians who are dying. but is not yet ready to fight on either in israel nor gaza it appears at this stage, ronan. >> do you think this new move to publicize the presence of drones in the conflict will serve as carte blanche for israel to do nor compat hamas? >> no, not really. the drones are an important new -- a new weapon if youd like in hamas a...

Need to. and boots on the ground can actually cost our americans lives. >> theyre now able to fly for so long, its an incredible achievement. 24 hours. >> yes. some of the advantages to a drone youre not risks human life but theyre able to really strike and strike with a lot of force. many people are nervous about the civilian population we can consequently take down with them. >> there are critics of expansion of the drone program because it so new and there are concerns others might use the sa...

U.s. would find it very hard to object if the russian president used lethal force. >> were obviously all sharing a concern if vladimir putin were to use drone strikes to take out those he felt were politically inconvenient in eastern ukraine, for instance, it would be tough for us to have a response. >> this panel was formed after the.gave the -- the president gave a speech where he promised a review of the drone program but there has been little progress on the issue. >> just as guantanamo had ...

Commander, political person, leader of the cia, that has pronounced the death of a terrorist organization or extremist movement over the past 13 years, i would be a rich man. >> reporter: and without clear rules on drone use, the panel warned the u.s. would find it hard to object if the russian president used lethal force. >> were all concerned from vladimir putin were to use drone strikes to take out those he felt were politically inconvenient in eastern ukraine, for instance, it would be a lit...

If hp big data solutions can keep wireless customers smiling, imagine what they can do for yours. make it matter. heres a news flash for you. the governments use of drones to kill terror suspects puts our country on a slippery slope that could create new terrorists even as drones kill them. news flash, right? that finding is from a report from a top military and intelligence official. its out today. the new report claims that droning suspects overseas could put our country in the stage of nons...

Administrations drone program. for more kathleen harris joins us with more. >> reporter: jenna, the centrist think tank concludes that the obama expansion of the drone campaign created legal and ethiccal and strategy questions. >> it is an over all program that is not consistent with american values and the rule of law over all. it is essentially been a 13 year secret targeted killing program. >> reporter: the first cia drone strike was in yemen in 2002 and the bulk of the program is on yemen an...

Killings. before now as you may remember it leaked selective information to defend the program then contradicted itself by arguing it couldnt even confirm if the program existed when it was challenged in court. that was a ridiculous move to promote drones in public while denying their existence. af been arguing that for years along with other observers. the presidents lawyer still say the entire drone program is a state secret. and that it may not even exist. >> policy seems to be that yes, we w...

>> we know that theres at least one other memo addressing constitutionality of the administrations claims that it can kill a u.s. citizen and release of that memo will be critically important. >> reporter: the memo was drafted by harvard law professor david baron whose confirmation to the bench was held up by the senate. today the white house spokesman said three year delay was justified. >> we worked through the legal system and those who are most interested in seeing it to produce a redacted d...

And this notion by mccain that this is going to mean more terrorism in the u.s. first of all, we should be very clear about this point, there are terrible people out there who want to kill americans and we need to defend ourselves against them. but we cant plug every rat hole in the world. if we shut down afghanistan, therell be an iraq, if theyre not in iraq, theyll be in yemen, if not in yemen, theyll be in mali and nigeria. and yes, we can maintain, and im for a sensible drone program if we c...

Who want to kill americans and we need to defend ourselves against them. but we cant plug every rat hole in the world. if we shut down afghanistan, therell be an iraq, if theyre not in iraq, theyll be in yemen, if not in yemen, theyll be in mali and nigeria. and yes, we can maintain, and im for a sensible drone program if we can find out who they are, well also be defending ourselves at home. but if youre worried about americans dying, if you follow what mccain says, youre going to send american...