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Protests Erupt at Brennan Confirmation Hearing
Posted by Big Eddie | Thursday, February 07, 2013
Filed Under: drones cia john brennan

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President Obama's nominee for Director of the CIA John Brennan was grilled today by Senators from both parties over the administration's targeted killings in the war on terror. Watch it.

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Linda S Houston
2/8/2013 1:19:52 PM
The reason there are so many people "over there" who want to kill us is because we are "over there" killing them.

Not only are there questions that need answering about drones, but we have yet to get a full accounting of what really happened on 9/11. I refuse to accept my government's or the media's account of who my enemy is until they answer some hard questions about what happened that day.

I could cover 3 pages with this but I will confine it to one topic. What really happened to WTC Building 7 that collapsed in a freefall at 5:20 p.m. on 9/11??? No plane hit it, and there were only a few scattered fires that were burned out before the building fell.

It fell in 7 seconds with absolutely no resistance whatsoever. Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth now have 1700 members from all over the world who say that there is NO WAY that building came down any other way but controlled demolition. These are world renowned scientists, physicists, mathematicians, architects and engineers. One expert said it would take weeks to plant the explosives in the building. And why did the BBC announce the collapse of the building 30 minutes before it actually collapsed???

Colorado Public Television aired their documentary "9/11 Explosive Evidence" on its Denver station. You can still see the video on that website. Many family members of those killed that day are in the film wanting the same answers as to what really happened and why their loved ones had to die.

Evidence of nano thermite was found all around the building. These scientists took the samples and tested them in many different laboratories.

The NIST was asked why they did not find this evidence when they did their "second" investigation. Their answer: "Because we didn't look for it."

And this is just the tip of the iceberg, there are so many other claims made that day that just do not add up.



Rob, Oregon
2/8/2013 12:01:39 PM
Since when is the CIA an open book? It's not just the pubs who are 'outraged' They are always outraged. A lot of Dems are protesting the drones too. You can use conventional means, like big bombs to target cells, or you can use minimal collateral damage methods like drones to take out enemies, or traitors. As far as I'm concerned Al-Awaki was a traitor to the United States, and they had enough on him to bear that out. Were outraged that he was denied due process? There are people out there that want us dead, and alleged ally nations that harbor them. It's naive to think the policy would have been stopped had Romney won. You would have heard a lot less about it most likely from the hypocrite repub's. or we would be in another ground war by now.

Will there be some innocents killed? Unfortunately, a probability since the Taliban like to use children and civilians as shields. Do we want the President to keep the country safe? These are the decisions he has to make. Drones go where troops cant, and have aided on keeping the Taliban on the run. How many troops would have been killed trying to go with conventional warfare to accomplish the same thing? I think it's a new dawn in warfare, and it isn't going away any time too soon because Al Qaeda recruitment doors never close.
donnajoy
2/8/2013 8:33:58 AM
Linda, I could not say it better.

The GOP only want to try to distract us from what is most important to us and they are still bent on sabotaging whatever the President wants to accomplish. Rush even said that if his political party has to destroy the economy than so be it.

There are questions that need to be answered about drones but in the long run we can never allow another 9/11 to happen again.

Linda S Houston
2/8/2013 3:42:20 AM
Again the double standard. The GOP on the committee asking Brennan to provide info on what speeches he gave??? What corporations he is on the board of??? This did not happen in at least the last 3 to 5 nominated for this office. Same thing Hagel. They just want to be a thorn in the President's side.

Of all the things this congress needs to get to work on and improve, who somebody gave a speech to should be the last thing on their list. We have so many critical issues that need attention. The very people that sold out our economy, many of them making money off of insider trading, are now acting as if they are some kind of holier than thou jury. And the odds are that these same people, when they leave office will go to work as lobbyists making fortunes off of the very same thing they are accusing Brennan of.


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