According to the Washington Times:
"Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is staging an active filibuster of John Brennan’s nomination to be CIA director, a move prompted by Attorney General Eric Holder’s admission that it could be constitutional to carry out a drone strike on an American in the United States.
Paul said that all presidents must honor the Fifth Amendment. “No American should ever be killed in their house without warrant and some kind of aggressive behavior by them,” Paul said on the Senate floor. “To be bombed in your sleep? There’s nothing American about that . . . [Obama] says trust him because he hasn’t done it yet. He says he doesn’t intend to do so, but he might. Mr. President, that’s not good enough . . . so I’ve come here to speak for as long as I can to draw attention to something that I find to really be very disturbing.”
More on this story can be found at
http://washingtonexaminer.com/rand-paul-filibustering-over-drones-i-will-not-let-obama-shred-the-constitution/article/2523425
To have the US Attorney General, the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, make such an assertion is something that should spark outrage. Since when did it become constitutional to assassinate American citizens?
At some point in my studies I read about this concept called "Due Process." What ever happened to that? What threshold does an American have to meet to qualify for death ... by Hellfire? Could it be tax evasion, unpaid taxes... TEA Party membership?
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