diet plan for 7 days: Thursday's Daily Brief: 'Signature Strikes' and the President's Empty Rhetoric on Drones; How Mitch McConnell Has (Mis)Ruled The Bluegrass State

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Thursday, July 11, 2013

'Signature Strikes' and the President's Empty Rhetoric on Drones

Arianna Huffington: Robert Greenwald's Brave New Foundation's recent video on the U.S. "signature" drone attacks gives us a glimpse, even if the White House won't, of what's being done in our name. "We are working," Greenwald told me, "to use the video to get Congress to introduce legislation to ban signature strikes." So watch it, and then start the debate the president claims to want. The missiles from the drones might be exploding in Pakistan and Afghanistan and Yemen, but the fallout will impact us here at home for years to come.

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