Today after a 13 hour Filibuster by Senator Rand Paul Eric Holder FINALLY delivered an answer to a question that was first raised a month and a half after it was first Raised.
What was the question?
“Does the president have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on an American soil?"
Arrogant Egotistical Idiotic thug Senator John McCain and equally idiotic and wimpy Senator Lindsay Graham made fun of Senator Rand Paul for holding the White House to the fire over the question but what both Senators Graham and McCain and the Press at large are ignoring is why did it take so long for the White House to Answer.
Yes Eric Holder Finally said NO! But why did it take so long and with so much hemming and hawing in between?
I mean shoot a there should have been no hesitation. Instead there was tons of hesitation, which suggests they are holding out the possibility that they could indeed shoot Americans with Weaponized drones on American Soil, not engaged in American Soil.
This scares the royal Hog Huey out of me and it should scare the royal hog Huey out of all Americans but for some reason it doesn't I wonder why?????
Did the president really think at some point he may need to use Weaponized Drones on Americans on US Soil not engaged in Combat and Why?????????????????
Keep in mind Our Very Own US Congress ok'd the use of Drones over the US.
Drones over U.S. get OK by Congress
Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It’s … a drone, and
it’s watching you. That’s what privacy advocates fear from a bill Congress passed this week to make it easier for the government to fly unmanned spy planes in U.S. airspace.
The FAA Reauthorization Act, which President Obama is expected to sign, also orders the Federal Aviation Administration to develop regulations for the testing and licensing of commercial drones by 2015.
Privacy
advocates say the measure will lead to widespread use of drones for
electronic surveillance by police agencies across the country and
eventually by private companies as well.
“There are serious policy
questions on the horizon about privacy and surveillance, by both
government agencies and commercial entities,” said Steven Aftergood, who heads the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation also is “concerned about the implications for surveillance by government agencies,” said attorney Jennifer Lynch.
The
provision in the legislation is the fruit of “a huge push by lawmakers
and the defense sector to expand the use of drones” in American
airspace, she added.
According to some estimates, the commercial
drone market in the United States could be worth hundreds of millions of
dollars once the FAA clears their use.
The agency projects that 30,000 drones could be in the nation’s skies by 2020.
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