http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/06-2
CIA Using Base in Saudi Arabia to Launch Drone Attacks in Yemen
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/06-3
Opening Message at Brennan Hearing: 'Stop CIA Murder'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/07-6
Brennan and Kiriakou, Drones and Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/07-2
Brennan s Obscene Testimony
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/08-4
'Doublespeak' and 'Pure Show' at Brennan's Confirmation Hearing
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/08
Statement on John Brennan s Admission to CIA and NYPD s Arrangement on Spying on American Muslims
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/02/08-2
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Five killed in Pakistan drone attack
Zee News [India]
02/06/13
At least five suspected militants were killed Wednesday in a drone attack in Pakistan s northwest tribal region, a media report said. The pilot-less predator plane targeted a house in Spin Wam area of North Waziristan along the border with Afghanistan, Xinhua reported...
http://tinyurl.com/ape9zxv
Brennan: Waterboarding isn t torture but I won t do it, hooray for al-Awlaki murder
CNN
The administration s top counterterrorism adviser said Thursday he was aware of the CIA s enhanced interrogation techniques that critics describe as torture while serving as a top official at the agency but did nothing to stop them because he had no oversight role. ... Brennan pledged that waterboarding would never be used under his direction, but he refused to label it torture. On the issue of drone strikes on terrorist targets abroad, Brennan defended the 2011 killing of Yemeni American Anwar al-Awlaki as part of the war against al Qaeda...
http://tinyurl.com/b28sb3c
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Brennan Nomination Exposes Criticism on Targeted Killings and Secret Saudi Base
By Greg Miller and Karen DeYoung
Civil liberties groups described the white paper as an example of the kind of unchecked executive power Obama campaigned against during his first presidential run.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33853.htm
NY Times Reveals Location Of Secret US Base In Saudi Arabia
By Margaret Sullivan
The Times and other news organizations, including The Washington Post, had withheld the location of that base at the request of the C.I.A.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33854.htm
Secret US Base in Saudi Arabia for drone Assassinations in Yemen
Saudi Arabia is home to the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina and the continued presence of US troops after the 1991 Gulf war was one of the stated motivations behind al-Qaida s 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Khobar Towers bombing five years earlier.
http://is.gd/1UXbFU
Pakistan s Ambassador to the U.S. Speaks Out Against Drone Strikes
Pakistan s ambassador to the U.S. has spoken out against American drone strikes in Pakistan, pointing out that they are illegal, create more militants than they kill, and violate national sovereignty.
http://is.gd/gJm1Yx
Naming the Dead: Bureau announces new drones project
The Bureau is launching an ambitious new investigation, which will seek to identify as many as possible of those killed in US covert drone strikes in Pakistan, whether civilian or militant.
http://is.gd/X0uxmj
Brennan pressed on drones at confirmation hearing for CIA post
''It s the idea of giving any president unfettered power to kill an American without checks and balances that s so troubling,'' Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said. ''Every American has the right to know when their government believes it s allowed to kill them.''
http://is.gd/YaTwZz
'Brennan The Perfect Guy To Head CIA, If Its Job Is To Create More Terrorists'
By RT
''If the CIA s job is to make the United States even less safe, if the CIA s job is to export violence and death and destruction in these foreign countries, if the CIA s job is to create even more terrorists through the use of these drone strikes, then John Brennan is the perfect guy to head the CIA.''
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33882.htm
Is This the Secret U.S. Drone Base in Saudi Arabia?
These satellite images show a remote airstrip deep in the desert of Saudi Arabia.
http://is.gd/9sy8sF
US newspapers accused of complicity as drone report reopens security debate
New York Times and Washington Post knew about secret drone base in Saudi Arabia but agreed not to disclose it to the public.
http://is.gd/edXzRn
Towards a police state in New York
Muslims in the New York City area experiencing major violations of their civil and human rights, says author.
http://is.gd/niYztK
From Information Clearing House
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Drone Memo Puts Brennan on Spot
Ray McGovern, Consortium News: ''The Senate Intelligence Committee s hearing on John Brennan?s nomination to be CIA director presents a rare public opportunity for Congress to insist that the White House publicly defend the legal reasoning that has been adduced to justify the killing of alleged American terrorists.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14419-drone-memo-puts-brennan-on-spot
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