<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of the New York Daily News at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/acnyzu9">http://tinyurl.com/acnyzu9</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><div class="story-headers" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; height: auto !important; text-align: left; "><h1 class="story-header" itemprop="headline" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Attorney General Eric Holder responds to Sen. Rand Paul’s 13-hour filibuster with one word: no </span></font></h1><h2 class="story-subheader" itemprop="alternativeHeadline" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘"Does the President have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil?" The answer to that question is no,' Holder wrote.</span></font></h2><h3 class="byline" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">BY <a rel="author" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/authors?author=Kristen%20A.%20Lee" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; "><span itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">KRISTEN A. LEE</span> </a>/ NEW YORK DAILY NEWS</span></font></h3><h5 class="dates" itemprop="datePublished" content="2013-03-07T14:41:08" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-position-x: 0px !important; background-position-y: 50%; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2013, 2:41 PM</span></font></h5></div><div class="story-img" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" itemid="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1281298!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/filibuster7n-6-web.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px; text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img title="This video frame grab provided by Senate Television shows Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. speaking on the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Senate Democrats pushed Wednesday for speedy confirmation of John Brennan's nomination to be CIA director but ran into a snag after a Paul began a lengthy speech over the legality of potential drone strikes on U.S. soil. But Paul stalled the chamber to start what he called a filibuster of Brennan's nomination. Paul's remarks were centered on what he said was the Obama administration's refusal to rule out the possibility of drone strikes inside the United States against American citizens. (AP Photo/Senate Television) " height="434" itemprop="associatedMedia" alt="This video frame grab provided by Senate Television shows Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. speaking on the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Senate Democrats pushed Wednesday for speedy confirmation of John Brennan's nomination to be CIA director but ran into a snag after a Paul began a lengthy speech over the legality of potential drone strikes on U.S. soil. But Paul stalled the chamber to start what he called a filibuster of Brennan's nomination. Paul's remarks were centered on what he said was the Obama administration's refusal to rule out the possibility of drone strikes inside the United States against American citizens. (AP Photo/Senate Television) " width="635" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1281298.1362608100!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/filibuster7n-6-web.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "></span></div><h4 class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">AP</span></h4><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky remained on the Senate floor for nearly 13 hours on Wednesday as he pressed the Obama administration for more information about potential drone strikes on U.S. soil.</span></p></h4></div><div class="story-rail p402_hide" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 200px; float: right; text-align: left; "></div><div class="story-body p402_premium" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sen. Rand Paul’s 13-hour filibuster got a one word response from Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday: no.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Paul’s marathon filibuster of John Brennan’s nomination to head the CIA was intended to force the White House for more information about the conditions under which it would justify killing an American citizen on U.S. soil without due process.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Although Holder had previously said such an attack would only be used to prevent a major terrorist attack, Paul demanded clarification that the Obama administration “will not kill Americans that are not in combat.”</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Holder’s response on Thursday was two sentences in its entirety.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“It has come to my attention that you have now asked an additional question: ‘Does the President have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil?’ The answer to that question is no,” he wrote.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Despite its brevity, Paul told CNN he was “quite happy” with Holder’s reply and declared his filibuster a “victory."</span></p></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></body></html>