So as long as senators tell the CIA nominee not to lie to them about civilian drone deaths, they don’t have to do anything to actually stop them.
See how that works?
And in a related vein, Digby points out a kid with the makings of a future senator!
Collateral damage
Our foreign policy is atrocious from top to bottom. And it has been for more than 100 years. There was this exchange between warmonger McCain and warmonger Panetta in a hearing yesterday. McCain: “And did you support the recommendation by….then Secretary of State (Hillary) Clinton and then head of the CIA Gen. Petraeus that we provide weapons to the restistance in Syria? Did you support that?” Panetta referring to Gen. Dempsey sitting beside him, “We did.” Obama rejected those recommendation because it would have provided arms to the Al-Nusra Front which was affiliated to al-Quida. Thank god for Obama. Warmongers like Hillary, McCain, Panetta, Petraeus and Dempsey are the reason we find ourselves in so much trouble around the world. These are the same idiots who pushed for and got a surge in Afghanistan and a secret drone program which is allowed to assassinate American citizens. Then there’s the Congress who voted to a man and to a woman to illegally invade Iraq. Where is the sanity?