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>> he will well, you know the idea that you get a trial before a jury and a judge if youre accused of a crime is something that weve had in our history through english history as well as the u.s. history for 800 years. its a very important part of the bill of rights, due process. so what were talking about is not killing someone with a grenade launcher on their shoulder. were talking about someone eating at a cafe in boston or new york and a hellfire missile comes raining in on them. there shoul...

Court. if you live in america you ought to get your day in court before a hellfire missile comes down on your house. >> chris: why would we need a drone strike? the reason is because we dont have people on the ground. if we knew where an al-qaeda operative is, american or foreign on u.s. soil wouldnt we just go catch them? >> you would think. but here is brennans response. he says the authorization to use force in 2001 in afghanistan has no geographical limit. when says that our first question i...

Court. if you live in america you ought to get your day in court before a hellfire missile comes down on your house. >> chris: why would we need a drone strike? the reason is because we dont have people on the ground. if we knew where an al-qaeda operative is, american or foreign on u.s. soil wouldnt we just go catch them? >> you would think. but here is brennans response. he says the authorization to use force in 2001 in afghanistan has no geographical limit. when says that our first question i...

Court. if you live in america you ought to get your day in court before a hellfire missile comes down on your house. >> chris: why would we need a drone strike? the reason is because we dont have people on the ground. if we knew where an al-qaeda operative is, american or foreign on u.s. soil wouldnt we just go catch them? >> you would think. but here is brennans response. he says the authorization to use force in 2001 in afghanistan has no geographical limit. when says that our first question i...

Helicopter launched fire and forget. hellfire. if you are going to be killed by a hellfire missile, does it matter to you if that missile is fired from one of these or from one of these instead? what is novel about drones is not that u.s. forces can kill people from the air using targeted so-called precision-guided missiles. u.s. forces have been killing people from the air for as long as we have had the capacity to put armed things in the air. what is novel about what our government is doing no...

Pull the trigger. you fire. and then you forget it. it goes to where you programmed it to go. helicopter launched fire and forget. hellfire. if you are going to be killed by a hellfire missile, does it matter to you if that missile is fired from one of these or from one of these instead? what is novel about drones is not that u.s. forces can kill people from the air using targeted so-called precision-guided missiles. u.s. forces have been killing people from the air for as long as we have had th...

Of the video comes at the end. >> come around, get some more distance. >> roger that. clear. >> theres more individuals in there. >> theres some confusion, maybe shots from nearby. all of a sudden, they zero in on a group of guys entering a building. >> theres at least six individuals in that building with weapons. >> we can put a missile in it. >> they say, lets hit it with a hellfire missile. theyre getting ready to fire that missile, and at the bottom left corner of the screen, you see a guy ...

>> the president a couple of days on the daily show said as soon as information comes out, we share it with american people. all right. lets see the taken. lets see exactly what happened. lets see it with our own two eyes. since four americans died, youve got to scratch your head and say all those guys with rpgs, all those explosions, why didnt they call in a counter strike? why didnt somebody drive another drone over with a hellfire missile? we were talking earlier about the situation in libya ...

Administrations response was well, it will take several hours for the cruise missiles launched from submarines to reach that objective. so you need to tell us where bin laden will be five or six hours from now. the frustration was enormous. >> so at that moment, you wanted to kill him? >> yes. >> but you couldnt get permission. >> correct. >> youre talk about the beginning of the hellfire missile and the drone program. they tried satellites it was too far away and they came up with the drone and...

Environment at the c.i.a. now and the way in which our country decides to either capture or kill terrorists? >> well, what happens is the administration has defaulted to a take no prisoners approach. so theres no way to interrogate people, to get intelligence -- to get out of that. which we need. >> why are we doing that? >> its easier, its interesting because our country, as powerful as it is, cant deal with interrogating anybody. its easier to kill someone from 10,000 feet, you know, using a h...