Administration tightened its own rules. last may. forced by factors such as the new york times report about president obama s secret kill list and rand paul s filibuster on drones last march. under the new policy, american suspects can only be killed by the military, not the cia, which has yet to hand over the drone program to the pentagon. but in the same may speech, when the president announced changes to the drone program, he talked about justification for killing american terrorists abroad. i do not believe it would be constitutional for the government to target and kill any u.s. citizen with a drone or with a shotgun without due process. but when a u.s. citizen goes abroad to wage war against america, his citizenship should no more serve as a shield than a sniper shooting down on an innocent crowd should be protected by a s.w.a.t. team. now, the president was not
Last week. there were flow injuries in this morning s sniper no injuries in this morning s sniper shooting, but no word on who is responsible for it. activists say the u.n. inspectors later reached the site and did check the area with doctors. our chris lawrence is covering this developing story. reporter: the bombs are falling [ explosions ] reporter: the accusations flying. now the pressure s on president obama to defend his red line on chemical weapons which rebels claim killed more than 1,000 people in syria. we cannot sit still. we ve got to move and got to move quickly. reporter: u.s. and british officials claim syrian forces shelled the site of wednesday s attack so much it corrupted any evidence the u.n. might find this week. a u.s. official tells cnn behind the scenes multiple international sources have already collected evidence from that site. the official says the sources took tissue samples and other evidence shortly after the
let me repeat that not only did congress authorize the use of force, it is briefed on every strike that america takes. the president also talked about this american who was killed in a drone strike in yemen. he is suspected in a series of al qaeda plots against the united states going back to 2009. here s the president s response to criticism. when a u.s. citizen goes abroad to wage war against america, and is actively plotting to kill u.s. citizens, and when neither the united states nor our partners are in a position to capture him before he carries out a plot, his citizenship should no more serve as a shield than a sniper shooting down on an innocent crowd be protected by a s.w.a.t. team. i m joined by robert green
Drone or with a shotgun without due process. nor should any president deploy armed drones over u.s. soil. but when a u.s. citizen goes abroad to wage war against america, and is actively plotting to kill u.s. citizens, and when neither the united states nor our partners are in a position to capture him before he carries out a plot, his citizenship should no more serve than a shield than a sniper shooting down on an innocent crowd should be protected from a s.w.a.t. team. arthel: retired u.s. colonel martha mcsally was the first female pilot to fly in combat. she is also the former chief the current operations at u.s. africa command. good to see you. good to see you too. arthel: colonel, you also worked on drone targeting. talk about this for me. how necessary are drones in the landscape of this modern
Out a plot, his citizenship should no more serve as a shield than a sniper shooting down on an innocent crowd should be protected from a s.w.a.t. team. that s who anwar al awlaki was. he was continuously trying to kill people. then just as the president was pivoting to the thorny issue of the prison at guantanamo and the rule of law, a protester stood up and started shouting questions about that very issue and kept on shouting at him for several minutes. there is no justification beyond politics for congress to prevent us from closing a facility that should have never been opened. excuse me, president obama, you are today, was again there are 102 people on hunger strikes. these desperate people. i m about to address it, ma am. you have to let me speak. ma am, let me finish. we went is that the way you treat he went on to we went we re addressing that, ma am. thousands of it s really a pretty remarkable change. there was an end to that when