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The way, which raises in your question that you are raising future conflicts, and the anger that, imagine if somebody was using a drone here and killed innocent americans the response that we would have to that. >> absolutely. and rula, that is what i want to ask you, because are we creating perpetual war in part by creating new enemies? >> lets think of it this way also, the kill list after september 11th was 10 people, and now it is thousands of peoples and we dont know who are these peoples a...

Term imminent so it means something other than an imminent defense. >> sean: and they can decide and manipulate it any way they want. senator reisch, what the white house is saying that these drone strikes against american citizens without any real criteria is legal, ethical and wise, but not water boarding which by the way we only used against three people. >> you know, sean, were at the incipient stages of a new way of fighting war. theyre going to be fought by using drones and as a result of ...

On executive power there. not just some guy in the basement of the white house -- >> with a kill list. >> with a kill list. >> im not sure he is in the basement of the white house. i think he is probably in the roosevelt room, but what do i know? >> the point about brennan is there was a ton of power concentrated in one guy and will continue to be concentrated. >> if the drone program continues to be under the ages of the cia and not go to defense, then john brennan remains the man. we have to t...

Or not they are a citizen is not the only question. were talking about things way off the battlefield and people that have not, by anything the administration has released if the onus is on them, shown their allegiance. and the tough question that wasnt asked today, okay, 18 years old, you can target them. that means they are on the kill list. 16 years old, you can target them. mr. brennan, what about 15, 14, 11, 9? the law cares a great deal about consent and meaningful participation. contrary ...

With, and i was sort of expecting all my democratic friends, all of my friends on the left p to howl and say what an outrage this was. i could only imagine if this is a front page story about george bush and dick cheney going over a kill list late at night. democrats have mostly given the president a pass on this, and republicans are mostly okay with the policy of killing terrorists with drones. as a result, as a country, we are allowing this to happen. people are basically okay with it. >> what...

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 ins pen dense to disagree with the president. >> well said. i think yesterday john brennan was grilled about various aspects of this program including the rights of americans who might be ...

Chris matthews. secrets and spies. the man who is at the center of the national debate over the targeted killing of americans overseas has been in the hot seat on capitol hill. among other things, john brennan coordinates the kill list, and so his confirmation hearing to become head of the cia is drawing an unusual amount of interest and attention. well get to what he said and the reaction at the top of the show. also, more and more people on the right are asking, who is karl rove and why shou...

Within the executive branch. but more to the point, whether or not they are a citizen is not the only question. were talking about things way off the battlefield and people that have not, by anything the administration has released if the onus is on them, shown their allegiance. and the tough question that wasnt asked today, okay, 18 years old, you can target them. that means they are on the kill list. 16 years old, you can target them. mr. brennan, what about 15, 14, 11, 9? the law cares a grea...

Of the things that strikes me as i look at the arguments on all sides and sort of wrestle with this is we have the use of special forces, which the president is also quite fond of in addition to drone technology. and it seems that americans have a different reaction. if, in effect, you say, look, weve got special forces, we can deploy them on raids into pakistan and theyre going to take somebody out, theyre going to kill someone like osama bin laden, that americans arent as uncomfortable with th...

Can say about that. war is a messy business. even technologically precise war like this. you raise an interesting point about this president. the first month he was in office, he authorized more strikes of this type than president bush had done during his entire term in office. and of course weve increased those for precisely the reasons that were suggested here. its a good way to keep americans out of harms way and so that we can launch -- we can fight war at a great distance and leave it compl...