Brennan said the strikes had been certified as complying with US law by US Attorney General Eric Holder, among other top officials.
http://bit.ly/IrL9XG
Drone victims' defender speaks
If you want to see how President Obama s drone war efficiently turns America s friends into adversaries, meet Pakistani attorney Shahzad Akbar.
http://bit.ly/IoIC0i
What You Need to Succeed is Sincerity And If You Can Fake Sincerity You Have Got It Made
By William Blum
Barack Obama knows there is something he can do about man s endless capacity for cruelty. He can add to it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31232.htm
The Real Cost of Killing Bin Laden
In a message released in November 2004, Osama bin Laden declared, ''We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy.''
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31223.htm
Not Explaining the Why of Terrorism
By Ray McGovern
John Brennan, President Obama s chief adviser on counterterrorism, has again put on public display two unfortunate facts: (1) that the White House has no clue as to how to counter terrorism; and (2) (in Brennan s words) ''the unfortunate fact that to save many innocent lives we are sometimes obliged to take lives.''
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31240.htm
Honoring a 'Terror War' Architect
By Ray McGovern
Brennan is widely known for his advocacy of kidnapping-for-torture (aka ''extraordinary rendition'') and killing ''militants'' (including U.S. citizens) with ''Hellfire'' missiles fired by ''Predator'' and ''Reaper'' drone aircraft.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31306.htm
From Information Clearing House
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Waking up to the drones
Antiwar.com
by Kelley B. Vlahos
05/01/12
Look at these photographs. See the eager faces among the children at the school, they could be anyone s kids at any moment in America. And the baby, so precious and new, reflecting the light of his proud parents, the hope of everyone around him. Now imagine that the school is attacked by Predator drones launching Hellfire missiles directly into the classrooms. ... According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, there have been upwards of 350 U.S. military and CIA drone strikes on Yemen and Pakistan since 2004, with the majority in Yemen (20 to 36) occurring in the last two months. As if their children were less valuable than our own, most Americans either ignore or remain passive-aggressively ignorant of the civilian carnage associated with these so-called 'targeted strikes'...
http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2012/04/30/waking-up-to-the-drones/
The Osama-Obama drama
The Nation
by Robert Dreyfuss
05/01/12
Let s unravel this a bit: Why did the White House yesterday tell John Brennan, the president s counterterrorism adviser, to speak publicly about drone strikes? ... There s a lot of reason to question the accuracy of nearly everything [stated] ... But let s leave those questions aside. Really, what s going on is politics, led by Obama s desire to present himself as King of the Antiterrorism World...
http://www.thenation.com/blog/167650/osama-obama-drama
Since bin Laden s death
Salon
by Glenn Greenwald
05/01/12
In the wake of Osama bin Laden s summary execution one year ago, many predicted that the War on Terror would finally begin to recede. Here s what has happened since then ...
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/01/since_bin_ladens_death/singleton/
The limbo of death row
CounterPunch
by Ron Jacobs
06/02/12
The death penalty is a fact of life in the United States. Despite the actions of many well-intentioned people, these premeditated murders continue to take place at a shameful pace. The fact that the death penalty does exist has brought many young people to question the morality of a system that supports and even champions execution. Unlike the other form of murder carried out by the state, war, the death penalty is harder to rationalize for many people.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/06/01/the-limbo-of-death-row/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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USA: Attack of the Drones
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/offensive-technology-1/attack-of-the-drones---usa-.html
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The Ghost of Osama bin Laden
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/02-7
What Did We Get for 381 US Dead Since the Death of bin Laden?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/02-3
John Brennan Should Tell the Whole Truth About the Drone Strikes
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/04-2
How Many Has the US Wrongfully Executed?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/05/18
Obama Re-Defines ''Militant'' and the Media Eats It Up
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/29-7
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Anatomy of an American Execution
Josh Rushing, Al Jazeera: ''In 2010, while making an episode of Fault Lines on the death penalty in the US, Josh Rushing interviewed death row inmate Michael Selsor. It was the only interview Selsor ever granted. Two years later, Rushing returned to watch Selsor die. In this special report, he takes an unflinching look at an American execution.''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9051-anatomy-of-an-american-execution
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Holder s Chutzpah
http://lewrockwell.com/sowell/sowell92.1.html
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Eric+Holder
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=DoJ
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Brennan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Shahzad+Akbar
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Osama+Bin+Laden
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Yemen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pakistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=global+war+on+terror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=militant
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=execution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=death+penalty
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=cruelty
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=counterterror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=rendition
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=target+killing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=mainstream+media
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kelley+B.+Vlahos
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Dreyfuss
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=William+Blum
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ralph+Nader
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Naiman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ray+McGovern
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Josh+Rushing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/sowell
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