Honorable Rand Paul
U.S. Senator, Kentucky, Republican
Senator Paul was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He serves on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee. The following is excerpted from a March 6, 2013, statement on the floor of the U.S. Senate during Senator Paul’s filibuster of the appointment of John Brennan to be Central Intelligence Agency director. What troubles me about the drone strike program is quite a few — I don’t know the number — of the attacks in Afghanistan have been signature attacks. This means nobody was named, nobody specifically was identified, and civilians aren’t…
