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Title: Rand Paul fears ‘hellfire missiles’ in U.S.
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URL Source: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/ ... fire-missiles-in-us-87951.html
Published: Feb 22, 2013
Author: KEVIN ROBILLARD
Post Date: 2013-02-22 18:23:40 by A K A Stone
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wants one thing before he’ll allow the confirmation of John Brennan as CIA Director to go forward; he wants assurances “someone eating at a cafe in Boston or New York” won’t have “a Hellfire missile [come] raining in on them,” he said Friday on Fox News. The libertarian scion sent a letter to Brennan’s office at the White House Wednesday asking if the administration has the power to order a lethal drone strike on an American citizen within U.S. borders. Until he gets an answer, Paul has pledged to use “every procedural option at my disposal to delay your confirmation and bring added scrutiny to this issue and the Administration’s policies on the use of lethal force.” “What we’re talking about is not killing someone with a grenade launcher on their shoulder,” he said Friday. “We’re talking about someone eating at a café in Boston, or New York and a Hellfire missile comes raining in on them. There should be an easy answer from the administration on this. They should say, ‘Absolutely no, we will not kill Americans in America without an accusation, a trial and a jury.’” Paul said the administration had ignored his inquiries so far. “I’ve asked serious questions, serious constitutional questions,” he said. “I’ve gotten zero response. And that is sort of the way this administration is treating Congress. The Senate has the right to advice and consent and approve nominees. I’ve not got one word of response from the administration on this.” The week of Brennan’s confirmation hearings, a memo leaked, outlining the Obama administration’s legal justification for killing Americans engaged in terrorism overseas, prompting outcry from civil liberties advocates. Paul wants to ensure the same justification can’t apply to citizens living in the U.S.
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#1. To: A K A Stone (#0)
What's Republican minority leader Mitch McConnel's position, rain hellfires on the tea party? He won't be able to do much to prevent confirmation without his fellow Kentuckian's support.
Paul should also ask them where the next meeting of "Friends of Hamas" is going to take place. He's definitly proving to be a lightweight.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
He already knows the meet at the White House. Hence his opposition to bombing Americans in America. Why can't the Muslim make believe President say that of course we wont blow Americans up in America? Because Obama the homosexual on the lowdown isn't an American and doesn't share American interests.
If he doesn't represent American interests, why was he elected twice? But here is no such org as 'Friends of Hamas' stupid. And your little politician, Rand, was caught totally unprepared with his pants downin front of millions of viewers. Yep he's a perfect representative for you head in the sand TeaBaggers.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
There you go again.... projecting your interests on to others! I know you guys are always ignoring history, but the Tea Baggers originally called themselves that before they copied the Koch Bros meme and stole the title of Tea Party from an integral US historical event. An event which has absolutely nothing to do with TP politics, BTW
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Rand Paul scares you!
Doubtless, cheers will erupt from the assemblies in Boston and across the nation as internet technology allows audio visual broadcast of the grand moment when the Ron Paul Blimp unloads a tiny bit 'o tea into Boston harbor And cheers will doubtless erupt as updates are reported on the detonation of the money bomb that the estimable Mr. Trevor Lyman has orchestrated for that day. Mr. Lyman's "This November 5th" campaign produced 4.2 million in typically one hundred dollar contributions to the Ron Paul Campaign fund in one day. ... Tea Parties will be held in communities across the nation. In my home town of Las Vegas, we're meeting in front of the IRS building with our symbolic tea boxes as reminders that American Patriots dumped tea imported from Britain into Boston Harbor on December 16th of 1773 to declare that they would no longer tolerate the unfair tax on tea. Central to the Ron Paul campaign is the argument that the IRS tax on our incomes is illegal and its revenues not needed to finance the legitimate activities of federal government. But the most symbolically powerful assembly will be at Boston's historical, Fanuel Hall. It is often opined that America has lost her way. Call it fact, fiction or metaphor as suits you, but the tragedy runs deeper. America has lost her soul. The Ron Paul campaign fights for material prosperity and rightly so. But it is the manufactured forgetfulnesses of our Revolutionary roots that has made us vulnerable to the multitudes of new offices and swarms of officers that harass our liberty and plunder our individual and national, material treasure. Sound money and a sound economy are visible on the horizon of the Ron Paul Revolution. But they are illuminated with a renewed awareness of the moral, spiritual and intellectual roots of our nation's founding. Larry Ward The modern tea party was started by grassroots Ron Paul supporters in 2007. Then a bunch of progressive bushbots came along - Glen Beck/Palin/Dick Armey, and possibly the Koch Brothers crew who hijacked the name, and are the fake tea party, aka GOP neocon liberal mccianiacs and mittards. Uploaded on Nov 11, 2007
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#2. To: A K A Stone (#0)
#3. To: mininggold (#2)
Paul should also ask them where the next meeting of "Friends of Hamas" is going to take place.
#4. To: A K A Stone (#3)
He already knows the meet at the White House. Hence his opposition to bombing Americans in America. Why can't the Muslim make believe President say that of course we wont blow Americans up in America? Because Obama the homosexual on the lowdown isn't an American and doesn't share American interests.
#5. To: mininggold, A K A Stone (#4)
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TeaBaggers
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#6. To: hondo68 (#5)
There you go again.... projecting your interests on to others!
#7. To: mininggold (#4)
#8. To: mininggold (#6)
Ron Paul's Tea Party
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Las Vegas, Nevada
Tuesday- Nov 11, 2007
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
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