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>> well, you know, i find it particularly disturbing. in fact, one of the things i actually admired about the president when he ran for office was that he believed that we should have warrants before we-- that we should have some due process, so he wants a warrant to tap your phone, but no judicial oversight to kill an american. and i think what's important about this, listen to what his response is. his response is, we haven't killed any americans yet. we don't intend to, but we might. and that's pretty disturbing. and the thing about the drone strike program is, we're not talking about someo...

Say. bill: we're still trying to figure out if the gunman knew one. women that was shot and killed. we're working to get that information now. wtxf with a picture there and images from outside the courthouse. wilmington, delaware, breaking knew. martha: this has been a big issue over the course of the last week and there is growing unease over the president's drone strike program as lawmakers on all sides are taking issue with a policy that critics say gives the president the power to target whoever he wants, wherever he wants, including u.s. citizens. while there seems to be little support fo...

There have been more than 300 drone strikes in the last decade, killing thousands of al qaeda and taliban, but more than 300 civilians, as well. a world away in remote villages, you can hear them. like a distant muted chain saw. a dull but deadly roar. villagers describing it this way. the drones are all over my brain. i can't sleep. when they're hovering over us, we're all scared. a reality we seldom see says stanley mcchrystal, the retired general who once ran the military's drone strike program. >> if the threshold gets too low and we're too casual about it, then we'll forget how much scar ...

In place, and we need congressional help to do that to make sure that not only am i reined in, but any president is reined in terms of some of the decisions we're making. >> that was president obama back in october, addressing concerns over the nation's drone strike program, part of the larger war on terrorism. despite the kind of campaign rhetoric, the obama administration has taken few steps to rein in the program intended to target terrorists. the president has insisted that drones have been used only to prevent an operational plot against the united states. yet as the guardian reports, ame...

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