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Protestor disrupts speech by Obama’s drone apologist
05.01.2012
05:57 pm
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Victims of a drone attack in Pakistan.
 
A Code Pink activist spoke truth to power yesterday when she confronted White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan as he addressed an audience at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars think tank. The woman was protesting drone strikes and the collateral damage of innocent people being killed.

“I’m here today because President Obama has instructed us to be more open with the American people about these efforts,” Brennan said. Well, that WOULD be nice, but it ain’t happening.

MSNBC reports:

Brennan on Monday spoke openly — and at great length — about what has long been one of the government’s most controversial official secrets:  the use of remotely piloted drones to kill suspected terrorists.

In doing so, he became the first U.S. government official to acknowledge that the drone strikes sometimes kill innocent people, though he characterized such deaths as “exceedingly rare.” But a new analysis by an independent Washington think tank estimates that more than 300 civilians have been killed by drones since President Barack Obama took office.

300 civilians killed to get how many alleged terrorists? And is the ratio worth living with? I think not.

The protester had to be dragged off by a security guy that looks about three times her size. She was fearless. Right on!
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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05.01.2012
05:57 pm
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