jct74
03-07-2013, 05:06 AM
another good article, has some quotes from Glenn Greenwald too.
Rand Paul's Filibuster Gives Civil Liberties A Rare Washington Moment
Where left and right meet. Paul on drones.
Rosie Gray
March 6, 2013 at 6:18pm EST
WASHINGTON — Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's hours-long, multi-senator filibuster of John Brennan's CIA director nomination has accomplished a rare feat: questions about targeted killing and the drone program have vaulted from the fringes to the forefront of Washington conversation, and it's lasted nearly an entire day.
Civil libertarians have, finally, arrived.
"You would hope that the question of whether the president can on his own authority kill citizens in the U.S. would have come to the forefront as soon as it was floated," said David Boaz, executive vice president of the libertarian Cato Institute. "But it seems like it took this particular circumstance to get people talking about it."
Paul began his filibuster at 11:47 a.m. with the promise that "I will speak until I can no longer speak." Over the course of the afternoon, seven other Republican senators and one Democrat, Oregon's Ron Wyden, have joined in the filibuster that has revolved around constitutional debate over whether or not the administration can use its authority to turn drones on U.S. citizens within U.S. territory.
Paul has name-checked a number of writers in the progressive libertarian space including Guardian blogger Glenn Greenwald, The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf, Firedoglake's Kevin Gozstola, and Esquire's Charles P. Pierce. He has promised to continue until the administration guarantees that it will not kill U.S. citizens within the United States. And his filibuster is undoubtedly the political story of the day, in mainstream news and otherwise.
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read more:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/rand-pauls-filibuster-gives-civil-liberties-a-rare-washingto
Rand Paul's Filibuster Gives Civil Liberties A Rare Washington Moment
Where left and right meet. Paul on drones.
Rosie Gray
March 6, 2013 at 6:18pm EST
WASHINGTON — Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's hours-long, multi-senator filibuster of John Brennan's CIA director nomination has accomplished a rare feat: questions about targeted killing and the drone program have vaulted from the fringes to the forefront of Washington conversation, and it's lasted nearly an entire day.
Civil libertarians have, finally, arrived.
"You would hope that the question of whether the president can on his own authority kill citizens in the U.S. would have come to the forefront as soon as it was floated," said David Boaz, executive vice president of the libertarian Cato Institute. "But it seems like it took this particular circumstance to get people talking about it."
Paul began his filibuster at 11:47 a.m. with the promise that "I will speak until I can no longer speak." Over the course of the afternoon, seven other Republican senators and one Democrat, Oregon's Ron Wyden, have joined in the filibuster that has revolved around constitutional debate over whether or not the administration can use its authority to turn drones on U.S. citizens within U.S. territory.
Paul has name-checked a number of writers in the progressive libertarian space including Guardian blogger Glenn Greenwald, The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf, Firedoglake's Kevin Gozstola, and Esquire's Charles P. Pierce. He has promised to continue until the administration guarantees that it will not kill U.S. citizens within the United States. And his filibuster is undoubtedly the political story of the day, in mainstream news and otherwise.
...
read more:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/rand-pauls-filibuster-gives-civil-liberties-a-rare-washingto