Salon.com > jon brennan http://www.salon.com Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:20:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 WH refuses to release more kill list opinions http://www.salon.com/2013/02/21/wh_refuses_to_release_more_kill_list_opinions/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/21/wh_refuses_to_release_more_kill_list_opinions/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:32:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13207293 The White House is resisting demands of some senators to provide more legal opinions justifying the use of targeted killing. During the Senate Intelligence Committee's confirmation hearing for CIA director nominee John Brennan, a number of Democratic senators asked that they and their staff be given access to more legal memos -- this request is, according to the New York Times Thursday, being flouted.

According to the Times, the administration is maneuvering information releases so as to appease just enough senators to see counterterror czar John Brennan confirmed as CIA director:

Rather than agreeing to some Democratic senators’ demands for full access to the classified legal memos on the targeted killing program, Obama administration officials are negotiating with Republicans to provide more information on the lethal attack last year on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, according to three Congressional staff members.

The strategy is intended to produce a bipartisan majority vote for Mr. Brennan in the Senate Intelligence Committee without giving its members seven additional legal opinions on targeted killing sought by senators.

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