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I of my own volition say im not going to do it. let the guy do his thing. >> i dont envision thats the way the system would work. the people who are placed on these kill lists, are on there for at least days, if not weeks or months, before the drone operators decide that this is the moment where we have the right intelligence to act on taking them out. so why not present that evidence to an independent review body at the moment you believe you have enough evidence to say these people represent s...

Hasnt congress passed any additional legislation to review drone policy, to really understand where there ought to be checks and balances? in the time thats passed since the original authorization, post 9/11, that gave the president the authority to have a kill list that the president works off of for drones? >> im glad to hear that the administration has released the memo that is under discussion to our intelligence committees in both the house and the senate. were going to be about oversight a...

To talk about what is at play here? what is your first thouts when you learned that the program was in place and could target americans? >> one it is it a great idea to take a terrorist out it doesnt matter how we take them out. whether we walk up close and shoot them or hit them from a drone at 20,000 feet. but the problem is it we are targiting americans. there can never be anyone in a position to have unlateral decision making on killing americans. guys like me and the men and women of the mi...

Chief. protesters interrupting proceedings before the room had to be cleared. he faced tough questions over the obama administration controversial drone program and kill list. heres what brennan had to say. >> i never believe its better to kill a terrorist than to dai contain him. we want to detain as many as possible to elicit intelligence. >> critics abrennan flip flopped on major issues before. is he the right man for the job. mike baker, thanks a lot for joining us. >> thank you. >> it seems...

Boggling, and the white paper gives the administration unchecked pow toer to carry out these attacks. it is a secret determination by what is called in the white paper an informed high level government official. theres secret evidence that we have no access to, and a secret definition of the enemy, and the definition, and it is carried out if someone poses an imminent threat to the united states, but the definition of imminent is stretched out of all proportion. >> so how much have we ever reall...

Meant to kill him, but the point being that i dont want any single individual, and, you know, im a supporter of president obamas, but i dont want any single individual, not george w. bush, not barack obama, to have the authority to say were going to kill these people. and nor do i want it to be obama and a group of people over whom he has authority. i dont want it to be people in the military who answer to him. i want it to be people of an outside branch of government who feel the independence t...

The way to doing it. youre not leaving it up to one individual with a kill list who is unilaterally deciding that this person needs to die. youre going through some sort of process, so theres a check, theres a balance there. >> and you think a judge would stop this and have the guts to do that if they knew -- lets imagine the conversation. cynthia, you pick up on this. suppose you get a call in the middle of the night or with a few hours notice, weve got a target, a high-value target in yemen. w...

Report from the committee raises concern about the information i was give taent time and the impression i had at that time, and now based on that information as well as what the cia says and what the truth is, and at this point, senator, i do not know what the truth is. >> what, whoa? i dont know what the truth is. it is -- >> well, it is really -- it is a joke that he did not know. >> it is shocking, because he is one of the top three or four officials in the cia through the bush administration...

Single individual, and, you know, im a supporter of president obamas, but i dont want any single individual, not george w. bush, not barack obama, to have the authority to say were going to kill these people. and nor do i want it to be obama and a group of people over whom he has authority. i dont want it to be people in the military who answer to him. i want it to be people of an outside branch of government who feel the independence to disagree with the president. >> well said. i think yesterd...

If there are individuals, meaning americans, that are imminently planning to cause destruction and death in the united states, that we ought to do something about it. we ought to interdict. the question though it seems to me is not whether we should do this at all but on whose say-so do we do it? do we do it simply on the word of somebody in the executive branch who has decided this american or some other individual needs to die and were going to kill them or is there some judicial review? were ...