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Lawmakers consider special court to oversee drone strikes

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    Peter Doocy reports from Washington, D.C.

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Well fallout over -- president the president's controversial drone program key lawmakers said to be considering.

A special court.

That would oversee these strikes the possibility raised after John Brennan the president's pick to head the CIA defended the drone program at his confirmation here.

The president has insisted that any actions we take will be legally grounded.

Will be thoroughly.

Anchored intelligence.

Will have the appropriates.

Review process approval process.

Before any action is contemplated.

Including those actions that might involve the use of lethal force.

She's live in DC so Peter tell us where the idea for these special courts has come from.

-- senators on both sides of the aisle are basically saying that if the US government is going to continue executing.

US citizens with drone strikes -- there need to be some checks and balances in place to make sure the American being targeted is really associated with al-Qaeda and really.

Cannot be captured to minimize the possibility.

Of a lethal operation against state and innocent person and that senate intelligence committee chair senator Dianne Feinstein says she thinks there will soon be a quote new day of transparency.

At one point it was a limited Covert program.

Now everybody knows about it and I think.

We need to see that this program is really run.

According to the American constitution and according to law.

Brennan said yesterday he never believes it's better to kill what terrorist than to detain one for.

Intelligence gathering purposes he also offered a new position on enhanced interrogation.

In 2007 he said it's saved lives but yesterday he said he personally objected to techniques like waterboarding when he was with the CIA.

But never tried to prevent them because they were being used in a different part of the agency.

-- Peter what about the nomination where does that stand.

It's really too soon to tell and the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee said last night.

He thinks after all those hours in the hearing room there are still some senators who are not sold on John Brennan as CIA director.

They're probably as many Democrats that are not happy with with him right -- are Republicans so.

I don't know I know the president needs a CIA director.

I don't know that John Brennan is a very knowledgeable person and we've got to just sift through what his answer toward -- On Tuesday Brennan will sit with the Senate Armed Services Committee behind closed doors for the second part of his confirmation hearing the classified part.

And at this point there is no definitive timetable for a floor vote to confirm him.

-- -- -- live in Washington Peter thank you.

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