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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/09

Obama Puts US Drone Program Back into Deadly High Gear
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/10-3

ACLU of Florida Statement Applauding Committee Passage of Drone Regulation Bill
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/01/15-5

10 Questions to Ask John Brennan at his CIA Confirmation Hearing
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/05-5

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Eleven Years of Guantanamo: Brennan CIA Nomination Consolidates Drone Assassination Strategy

Paul Jay, The Real News Network: Michael Ratner, president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights, says Obama carries on the policies of George W. Bush when it comes to issues of ''national security.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13856-eleven-years-of-guantanamo-brennan-cia-nomination-consolidates-drone-assassination-strategy

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Brennan for CIA Head: Embracing the legacy of torture

The American Prospect
by Scott Lemieux

01/14/13

Less than a month after Barack Obama was elected in 2008, John Brennan withdrew himself from consideration for head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) because of opposition from liberals, which centered on his role as chief of staff to CIA director George Tenet when the Bush administration's arbitrary detention and torture programs were being developed. It is particularly depressing, then, that Obama has done as a safely re-elected incumbent what he felt he could not do in his first term: Nominate Brennan as head of the CIA. The fact that Brennan has been nominated despite his support for some of the worst abuses of the post-9/11 security state demonstrates the appalling extent to which many of these practices have become institutionalized, as well as the political weakness of defenders of civil liberties...

http://prospect.org/article/embracing-legacy-torture


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The CIA and Other Government Agencies Dominate Movies and Television
http://lewrockwell.com/spl5/cia-movies-tv.html

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Prolonged detention
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/defending-civil-liberties-1/prolonged-detention--2011.html

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Obama Nominee For CIA Director, Had Detailed Knowledge Of Torture

John Brennan, President Barack Obama s nominee to head the CIA, had detailed, contemporaneous knowledge of the use of ''enhanced interrogation techniques'' on captured terrorism suspects during an earlier stint as a top spy agency official, according to multiple sources familiar with official records.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33772.htm



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