Senate: Make Brennan Come Clean on Drone Strikes

President Obama has nominated John Brennan, whom the New York Times calls the "chief architect" of the secret drone war, to head the CIA. A bipartisan group of eleven Senators led by Ron Wyden and Dick Durbin has demanded that the Administration disclose its legal justification for using drone strikes to kill Americans overseas. In response, the White House leaked a "white paper" that summarizes its argument, but has still not released the legal memos, even to the Senate Intelligence Committee. Urge the Senate to demand answers to basic questions about the drone strike policy before Brennan is confirmed as head of the CIA. What is the legal justification for drone strikes? How many civilians have been killed? Will Brennan get the CIA out of drone strikes, as Human Rights Watch and the Washington Post editorial board have demanded? Is it true that the CIA has targeted rescuers with "secondary strikes," which the UN has said is a war crime?