President Obama’s nominee for CIA director will be bombarded with questions Thursday in a Senate hearing that could bring new revelations about the targeted killings of U.S. citizens overseas.
Opposition to the nomination of John Brennan, now Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, surfaced quickly among Republicans after the White House tapped him to replace David Petraeus as CIA director.
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But Monday’s leak of a confidential Department of Justice (DOJ) paper justifying the use of armed drone strikes against suspected terrorists — even if those suspects are U.S. citizens — has lit a fire under liberals as well.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee that will hold Thursday’s hearing, joined nearly a dozen senators this week in demanding that the White House release more information about the drone killings.
