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&feature=plcp"A local Ohio reporter grilled President Obama forcefully about his controversial so-called "kill list" on Tuesday. Obama has been making an aggressive effort to speak to local reporters during the 2012 campaign, and Ben Swann, a reporter for Fox 19 in Cincinnati, used some of his minutes to press him about the list, which has the names of people who the administration has selected for targeted drone strikes. Press reports about the program have been the subject of heated political arguments on Capitol Hill. Swann was remarkably frank about the interview in a "Reality Check" segment. It was, in several ways, a tougher, more skeptical segment than viewers would find on many a national news program...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here from Jack Mirkinson in The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/06/ben-swann-local-ohio-repo_n_1861943.html
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woo me with science
(32,139 posts)A JOURNALIST DOING HIS JOB for a change.
We desperately, desperately need more of this.
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)Stupid rule of law.
I miss cenk on MSNBC. It said a lot about NBC when they shit-canned him.
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)a bunch of CRAP. CARTER's people ordered hits (as they ALL do through the CIA) and Carter was involved in supporting Iraq early on against Iran. EVERY administration deals with these international situations. VERY sad the boy or any innocent person got hit, but those who are targeted are VERY bad guys operating OVERSEAS, not on US soil, and so live by the sword then die by the sword. It just isn't a perfect world.
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)It doesn't make it right just because a Democrat does it. Murder is murder no matter who does it.
rachel1
(538 posts)Murder should never be justifiable because someone else is committing it.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)In the past, I believe that I heard President Obama say or infer that executions for mass murderers, is an international decision among government leaders.
The details are national security issues that he cannot discuss.