adminhis top White House anti-terror adviser John Brennan to lead the Central Intelligence Agency in his second term.
Some senators had warned they would use Brennan’s confirmation as leverage to force the administration to share more information on the legal and constitutional grounds for the US government killing its own citizens.
The disclosure also comes after NBC News published an unclassified Justice Department white paper covering similar ground.
This reignited the debate about the killing of estranged Americans who switched sides in the “War on Terror.”
“Today, as part of the president’s on-going commitment to consult with Congress on national security matters, the president directed the Department of Justice to provide the congressional intelligence committees access to classified Office of Legal Counsel advice related to the subject of the Department of Justice white paper,” the spokesperson said.
Obama aides insist killing Al-Qaeda suspects, including occasionally US citizens, in hotspots like Yemen complies with US law and the Constitution, even when no intelligence links the targets to specific attack plots.
“We conduct those strikes because they are necessary to mitigate on-going actual threats, to stop plots, to prevent future attacks and, again, save American lives,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Tuesday. — AFP.
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