So you'd have to have lived under a rock this week to have not heard all about Rand Paul's epic filibuster and his campaign to protect you from Obama dispatching drones to blow you up while having a frappachino at your neighborhood Starbucks.
His PR stunt was such a success that folks like Jon Stewart & John Cusack bought into it's narrative. The problem is, it was fabricated, hyperbolic horse shit. Rand launched a faux populist campaign based on something that never existed. Yesterday PolitiFact found Rand's statement that "The president is advocating a drone strike program in America." to be completely FALSE.
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Brennan had offered a similar explanation in response to lawmakers’ questions before his February hearing.
A senator had asked, "Could the administration carry out drone strikes inside the United States?"
Brennan’s reply: "This administration has not carried out drone strikes inside the United States and has no intention of doing so."
I'll leave you with a spot on summery of PolitiFact's assessment of Rand's filibuster.
Steven Groves, a senior research fellow with the conservative Heritage Foundation, agreed, saying it was "probably a stretch to say that the administration is ‘advocating’ a drone strike program in America" when in fact Paul’s most immediate concern was that Holder would not rule out the use of drone strikes against Americans on U.S. soil. The statement, Grove said, "may fairly be characterized as rhetorical flourishes."
Paul Pillar, a veteran of the CIA who now teaches at Georgetown University, added that Paul’s statement "does not fairly reflect the extreme and extraordinary nature of the hypothetical circumstance that the attorney general was addressing."
Our ruling
Rand Paul tweeted that "the president is advocating a drone strike program in America."
The attorney general and White House counterterrorism chief haven’t strictly ruled out the use of lethal force against U.S. citizens on American soil, but they said that it would take extraordinary circumstances. We — and all the experts we consulted — see no evidence that the administration is purposefully advancing the goal of a drone strike program in America. We rate Paul’s claim False.
The point is Rand manipulated a non issue into a full scale promotional campaign for his "constitutionalist" platform. Don't believe the hype.