50-page document to be given to Senate intelligence committee in attempt to ease pressure on John Brennan The White House has bowed to demands from Congress to release its legal reasoning for the killing of US citizens by armed drones in an attempt to ease pressure on John Brennan, the architect of the drones strategy, at his Senate confirmation hearing as CIA director on Thursday. The Associated Press reported that Barack Obama ordered that the 50-page legal rationale finally be given to the Senate intelligence committee as members’ anger at the administration’s refusal to share the classified document led to an implied threat from some senators to hold up Brennan’s nomination

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