President Obama: Dick Cheney Was Worse On Drones

President Obama: I'm No Dick Cheney On Drones -- Politico

President Barack Obama’s defense to Democratic senators complaining about how little his administration has told Congress about the legal justifications for his drone policy: Dick Cheney was worse.

That’s part of what two senators in the room recounted of Obama’s response when, near the outset of his closed-door session with the Senate Democratic conference on Tuesday, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) confronted the president over the administration’s refusal for two years to show congressional intelligence committees Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel memos justifying the use of lethal force against American terror suspects abroad.

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My Comment: President Obama is trying to "wash his hands" from a policy that has expanded dramatically under his administration (see the above graph) .... but with the media being as compliant as they have been for the past 5 years .... he may get away with it.