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Rand Paul: in late January we sent a letter to John Brennan, the nominee for the CIA, asking a bunch of questions. Included among…

On the recordMarch 6, 2013
in late January we sent a letter to John Brennan, the nominee for the CIA, asking a bunch of questions. Included among those questions was, Can you kill an American in America with a drone strike? We got no response and no response and no response. Thanks to the intervention of the ranking member on the Intelligence Committee, as well as members from the opposite aisle on the Intelligence Committee, we finally got an answer about 2 days ago. The answer from John Brennan was that he acknowledges the CIA cannot act in the United States. That is the law. That was nice. But the Attorney General responded and said they do not intend to. They have not yet, but they might.
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Rand Paul
Republican · Kentucky
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Mar 6, 2013

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