Obama Appoints "Assassination Czar"

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Obama appoints first ever Assassination Czar

President Obama appointed John Brennan as the sole person in charge of designating people to be assassinated on Tuesday.
 
Most recently he publicly spoke about the drone program calling it moral, ethical and just and has been known in the past to back the use of CIA torture to extract information from alleged terrorists.
 
According to a report from the Associated Press, John Brennan has now seized the lead in choosing who will be targeted for drone attacks and raids.
 
The report revealed that President Obama has delegated him the sole authority to designate people for assassination under the United States top-secret assassination program.
 
As the Associated Press describes it, "The effort concentrates power over the use of lethal U.S. force outside war zones within one small team at the White House," following criticism that sometimes the C.I.A. kills people whose identities it doesn't even know.

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With Control of Drone Strikes, Is Counterterror Chief John Brennan the U.S. "Assassination Czar"?

President Obama’s counterterrorism chief John Brennan is heading up a new team to determine who should be targeted by armed U.S. drones overseas. The newly revealed procedure for drone attacks means Brennan’s staff consults the Pentagon, the State Department and other agencies before ultimately deciding who will be targeted. One official said there is growing concern over "how easy it has become to kill someone" under the administration’s drone strike policy. We speak with investigative blogger Marcy Wheeler of the website, "Empty Wheel." "I think we’re now calling Brennan the 'assassination czar,'" she says. Wheeler disputes the government’s assertion the drone attacks are finely targeted, noting that it is unclear who the targets really are and that civilians have been killed. [includes rush transcript]

Follow this link for a video of Democracy Now's report: http://www.democracynow.org/2012/5/24/with_control_of_drone_strikes_is