Medea Benjamin, March 7: “progressives should Stand with Rand”

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4. But Rand doesn't want to close Guantanamo:

Wednesday, April 17, 2013:

“I don’t know that I have a great answer, to tell you the truth,” said the Kentucky Republican, later adding, “I have not come down on the position of closing Guantanamo Bay.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/17/paul-father-and-son-differ-on-issue-of-closing-gua/?page=all

He doesn't really give a shit about using drones overseas, either. Benjamin even says that in her ridiculous article:

He did not ask the government to stop the practice of hitting the same area twice, often times killing rescuers who are trying to help the victims of the first strike. He was not asking the government to take drones out of the hands of the CIA, a civilian agency that is supposed to focus on intelligence gathering. He did not ask for an accounting of civilian casualties overseas, and that the US publicly acknowledge when it kills civilians. Although he mentioned the case of 16-year-old US citizen Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, killed in a drone strike in Yemen two weeks after his father was killed, he did not demand a response from the government.

Believe it or not that entire filibuster stunt in April was supposedly about getting the CIA to stop using drones domestically, which, as far as I know, is a total figment of his toupee.