Feinstein is chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the committee that supposedly is doing "oversight" of the CIA.
"It is also because Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent." - Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will Jo Becker and Scott Shane, New York Times, May 29, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html "However, after the hearing Feinstein told journalists she was unaware of reports that in some instances U.S. officials assumed any male of fighting age killed in a strike was a combatant — a method that could undercount the number of civilian deaths." - 4 takeaways from John Brennan’s grilling Josh Gerstein, Politico, February 7, 2013 http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/takeaways-from-the-john-brennan-hearing-grilling-87362_Page4.html -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
