When you’re President Obama and you're lambasted by Clinton-era White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, it’s far past time to give Congress the rules and justification for killing U.S. citizens without due process.

“Give them up, Mr. President,” Podesta wrote in a scathing op-ed on drone warfare published in The Washington Post today.
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Podesta is chairman of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank that essentially is a shadow wing of the Obama administration. The group was a Democratic government-in-exile during the Bush administration and helped Obama fill thousands of political jobs in the federal government.

He knows his stuff. He knows Obama. He knows the stakes. “We cannot lead,” Podesta wrote, “if the American people are kept in the dark.”
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“In refusing to release to Congress the rules and justifications governing a program that has conducted nearly 400 unmanned drone strikes and killed at least three Americans in the past four years, President Obama is ignoring the system of checks and balances that has governed our country from its earliest days. And in keeping this information from the American people, he is undermining the nation’s ability to be a leader on the world stage and is acting in opposition to the democratic principles we hold most important.”
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“The American people have the right to know the laws they live under. In addition to allowing Congress to properly fulfill its oversight duties, the administration should make available to the public the criteria justifying the targeted killing of Americans and the safeguards put in place to protect against wrongful death."
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Rand Paul couldn’t have said it any better.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/...arfare-20130315

Having John Podesta speak out about the unlawfull actions of Obama offers a small glimmer of hope for the country.