[Peace-discuss] News-Gazette: Guest commentary: Senate should hold public hearings on drone strikes

[Carl G. Estabrook]

In each case, it would be giving a tincture of legality to government crimes - rather like the "FISA-like drone court" that the thug whom Obama made his assassination chief said would be "worth considering." 

We should instead be calling on the Congress to do its constitutional duty and impeach and remove the president for what the drafters would recognize immediately as high crimes and misdemeanors. 

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On Feb 24, 2013, at 9:51 PM, Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com> wrote:

> If they did, would you suggest that they shouldn't?
>  
> Ricky 
> "Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn

> From: Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
> To: Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> 
> Cc: Peace-discuss List <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> 
> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 7:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] News-Gazette: Guest commentary: Senate should hold public hearings on drone strikes
> 
> Isn't that like asking the German parliament to hold public hearings on the concentration camp policy in the 1930s? --CGE
> 
> 
> On Feb 24, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:
> 
> > http://www.news-gazette.com/opinions/editorials/2013-02-24/guest-commentary-senate-should-hold-public-hearings-drone-strikes.htm
> > 
> > Guest commentary: Senate should hold public hearings on drone strikes
> > 
> > Sun, 02/24/2013 - 11:00am | The News-Gazette [1]
> > The Senate Intelligence Committee is supposed to do oversight of the Central Intelligence Agency. Since the CIA is conducting drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, and since this is a controversial policy, the Senate Intelligence Committee should be doing oversight of that...