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jct74
03-07-2013, 10:06 AM
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What Paul read was from a post I had written the day before on a letter Holder sent to Paul “answering” his question as to whether it would be permissible for the president to authorize a drone strike on a US citizen on US soil. He received an answer that was not a clear “yes” or “no” but, when read, it was clear Holder had said there are cases where we could use a drone to target and kill a US citizen.

Paul continued to read from the post I had written. Later, in his filibuster, he read articles or posts from Guardian writer Glenn Greenwald, The Atlantic‘s Conor Friedersdorf, Wired’s Spencer Ackerman and Noah Schachtman, The Esquire‘s Charles Pierce, Council on Foreign Relations’ writer Micah Zenko and the Center for Constitutional Rights’ Vince Warren. He read from Greg Miller of The Washington Post‘s series on the development of a “disposition matrix” and a counterterror “playbook” for drones.

The citation of the work of journalists and writers led The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill, who has produced remarkable work on drones, to say on Twitter that Paul was demonstrating the “public service of journalism.”

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