Obama Faces Bipartisan Pressure on Drone Big Brother Fear
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The struggle between President Barack Obama and Congress over the administration’s secretive drone program has focused growing bipartisan concern on the reach of government power both at home and abroad.
Obama’s administration bowed to bipartisan pressure yesterday from critics of his drone strike policy, issuing a terse statement saying the president doesn’t have power to carry out such a killing on “an American not engaged in combat on American soil.”