CONGRATULATION Rand Paul

Rand Paul wins CPAC Presidential straw poll.

Well deserved! 

Drones: Republicans Are Not The Only Ones Questioning

In a letter to Obama on Monday, eight House Democrats, led by Rep. Barbara Lee of California, hammers the administration for its “increasing devolution of accountability, transparency, and Constitutional protections in U.S. counterterrorism operations.”

Signing the note were some of the House’s most progressive members: Reps. John Conyers (MI), Donna Edwards (MD), Keith Ellison (MN), Raul Grijalva (AZ), Rush Holt (NJ), Mike Honda (CA), and James McGovern (MA).

I can't believe that I am saying this, but thank god for these Democrats having the courage to prove that concerns over the administration’s secretive drone strikes is not just a huge issue among civil libertarian Republicans like Paul.
The Democrats’ letter spells out concerns over five particular aspects of the drone program:

“An unbounded geographic scope; unidentified ‘high-level’ officials with authority to approve kill-lists; a vaguely defined definition of whether a capture is “feasible”; an overly broad definition of the phrase “imminent threat,” which re-defines the word in a way that strays significantly from its traditional and legal meaning; and the suggestion that killing American citizens and others would be legitimate “under the Authorization for Use of Military Force and the inherent right to self-defense.”

 They go on to say that its a “dangerous precedent” with its recent behavior, and demanded that Obama release:

“in an unclassified form, the full legal basis of executive branch claims in the areas which are the subject of this letter. The Executive’s claims of authority need to be fully articulated to the whole Congress and the American people.”

Well thats a breath of fresh air, if I do HAVE to say so myself .

PS: Are you listening, Lindsay Gramm and John McCain?

Rand Paul- Obama Could Be Running Guns to Jihadists

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., raised questions during a radio interview a few days ago, about whether the Obama administration was smuggling guns to jihadist rebels in a possible “international Fast and Furious” that the White House has tried to cover up.

Speaking with Aaron Klein Investigative Radio on New York’s WABC Radio, Paul said the guns scheme could help explain the reason for the coordinated attacks against the U.S. special mission and CIA annex in Benghazi last September.

Paul: “There is also some concern about whether or not Libyan arms are being ferried through Turkey into Syrian rebels and whether or not that had something to do with the cover-up that came out of the administration when the administration was saying that, ‘Oh, this attack in Benghazi had something to do with a film.’

“Maybe that was to cover up that there was some kind of gun smuggling going on over there, some kind of international fast and furious was going on in Libya and that this was a cover-up,”  
Paul continues. “These are some of the questions that we are going to have for Hillary Clinton when she comes before our committee.

But this question was never posed to Clinton! Why?
Will she return for more testimony? Maybe, if this committee hears testimony about the weapons used in the attack on our conciliate and where they came from... But don't hold your breath! 

After Clinton shocking statement of "What difference does it make" and being that this committee is made up of mostly liberal Senate hacks, this question will never be discovered, I'm afraid!