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That agency and as the presidents top counterterrorism advisor these past four years, hes done extraordinary work in the effort to combat al-qaeda. >> steve: okay. so perhaps that, the fact that mr. brennan will sit in the chair later today is the reason the white house has released it. now theyre going to be able to look with their own two eyes, the congressmen and senators will be able to look and figure out what gives the president the authority. remember, we read in one of those books, the p...

Year, "the new york times" reported the kill list with the president individually signing off on these. brennan said in his answers yesterday to the committee, written answers, that these are all carefully vetted, but people want to know, whats the oversight? >> joe, we talk about due process. what is the difference between a waco, texas, situation where the government, where law enforcement goes in, whatever they have to do to take out the problem, and using drones? its just a different technol...

Strategy the playbook, a set of evolving rules adopted by the obama administration as a guide on how to fight a high-tech global war prominently featuring drone attacks. as a member of obamas inner circle, he provides the president with a highly confidential document filled with high-profile terror suspects known as the kill list. >> there is nothing in international law that bans the use of remotely-piloted aircraft for this purpose or that prohibits us from using lethal force against our enemi...

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 completely immune. >> michelle, can we keep the mo...

Good evening. im michael smerconiummer komer 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 righ...

Almost anyone else. now we have the release of the white page memo. john brennans testimony today probably going to be the most telling, the most public weve seen of this so far. what do you make of the timing of all of this and the lack of checks and balances that have been in place? >> the time something fascinating. it seems clear to me it was obviously timed to precede john brennans testimony and to highlight this issue because in many ways john brennan in all the reporting we have about wha...

For water boarding three planners of 9/11 attacks, but you dont have a problem with the president having a kill list. again, we knew he had a kill list before the election, this is not new information. we-- its just gotten worse because now were seeing, theyre doing exactly what president obama criticized bush for basically making the law fit around his already preconceived notion and what obama is doing an unconstitutional and illegal. theres no question. there is no way you can argue that you ...

So were not saying this is unpopul unpopular, but it does get to really important constitutional issues. there is no probable cause, no opportunity to surrender, americans are on a kill list. the president is making the decision with no congressional or judicial oversight. >> ill disagree a little bit. there is oversight. even leading up to -- if you remember in the al qaeda leader in the arabian peninsula had planned several events. one was the christmas day bomber. so he recruited that person,...

Third party without the primary recipients knowledge. he wasnt joking and he regarded that as underhanded. one of the ways i think the defense of the targets killing program has been carried out by the obama administration is to say, look, we understand were playing with some dangerous stuff here. we have people, a tremendous moral rectitude and we have an intense internal process and its sophisticated and rigorous and a legal memo from the olc saying we have the constitutional authority to do t...

They will describe these drone strikes as having been reported. they never full on admit that the united states is carrying them out. but it is the united states carrying them out. the fact that we know these things are happening and that our government nevertheless considers them to be deniable is frankly one of the more orwellian things about being an american citizen in the 21st center pi. the closest thing we have to a face for the drone policy or the drone non-policy is this man. he is the ...