Jon Stewart is upset about President Obama’s reported “kill list” used to identify terrorist suspects. But he is dumbfounded by the congressional response to it.“I would guess the drones are doing biometric readings and instantaneously cross-referencing databases of known criminals, that’s probably how we do it, I would guess,” Stewart said on Wednesday. Not the case. According to the explosive New York Times report, Obama has embraced a method of counting civilian deaths that essentially counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=98034