No court for drone oversight, says GOP

[unhappycamper]

http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/282687-no-court-for-drones-says-gop

No court for drone oversight, says GOP
By Carlo Muñoz - 02/13/13 05:00 AM ET

Senate Republicans on Tuesday ruled out placing armed drone strikes under the authority of a special court, arguing the move would be a dangerous intrusion on presidential power.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) last week raised the idea of creating a new oversight court for drones that would be patterned after the checks and balances that govern surveillance.

But senior Republicans in the Senate dismissed that plan as unrealistic, and warned it would undermine critical counterterrorism efforts.

“I think it is a terrible idea,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told The Hill.

[ellenfl]

1. aren't these the same guys who are saying president obama is giving himself too much

presidential power?

[ArmySoldier]

2. Leave war time decisions to the PROFESSIONALS

Well seeing what drone strikes can do I have to say that the strikes need to be brought down to the guys on the ground. The President can't see what is happening on the ground and most times doesn't know the intelligence that the ground commander does. Plus it doesn't make sense for someone who hasn't been there, who hasn't served be making the decision of strike or not. Plus the time it takes to make calls all the way back to Washington only puts our service members in danger waiting for the word to strike or not on the BIG targets.