PRESIDENT Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, goes before a Senate committee today to answer questions about whether he has the qualifications and the nerve needed to be the nation's next director of the CIA.
What awaits Brennan over the course of the hearings, however, may be pointed questions about other issues, such as the escalation of the government's drone defense program and a leaked memo spelling out the administration's logic for killing Americans allegedly among the top ranks of al-Qaida or its "associated forces." - More
