Democracy Now!
"Thursday’s confirmation hearing for CIA nominee John
Brennan was briefly postponed to clear the room of activists from CODEPINK after they repeatedly disrupted Brennan’s testimony.
One woman held a list of Pakistani children killed in U.S. drone strikes. Former
U.S. diplomat Col. Ann Wright interrupted Brennan while wearing a sign around
her neck with the name of Tariq Aziz, a 16-year-old Pakistani boy who was killed
in a U.S. drone strike in 2011. Wright and seven others were arrested. We speak
to CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin who also disrupted
the meeting and recently visited Pakistan to speak with victims of drone
strikes. “It’s not only the killing, it’s the terrorizing of entire populations,
where they hear the drones buzzing overhead 24 hours a day. Where they’re afraid
to go to school, afraid to go to the markets, to funerals, to weddings. Where it
disrupts entire communities,” Benjamin says. “And we are trying to get this
information to our elected officials, to say, 'You are making us unsafe here at
home,' to say nothing about illegal, immoral and inhumane these policies are.”....."
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