Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates endorses ‘drone courts’

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Sunday, 10 February 2013

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Former US defense secretary Robert Gates on Sunday endorsed the idea of having a special court review drone strikes as a check against a president’s power to, in effect, execute Americans. The issue came to the fore last week during a Senate hearing to confirm John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s counter-terrorism chief, as director of the CIA. Gates, a former CIA director who served as defense secretary under both Obama and former president George W. [...]

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