Bartering approval of political nominees for documents

I think it's a bad idea, but here we go again.  Either a presidential nominee is worthy of approval by Congress, or they are not.  They are either qualified to serve, or they are not.  Bartering documents on Benghazi for Hagel, or documents on the drone program for Brennan is a bad idea, and yet here we are.

Sen. Rand Paul has taken to the floor of the U.S. Senate and is vowing to stay there “at length” in order to filibuster John O. Brennan, President Obama’s nominee to be the next CIA director.

The freshman Kentucky Republican has said he will hold up the nomination until he gets more information about the U.S. drone execution program, which has become a major sore point for many lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

“I will speak today until the president responds and says, ‘No, we won’t kill Americans in cafes. No, we won’t kill you at home at night,’” Mr. Paul said.

Just hours earlier, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. testified to a Senate committee that he believed it would be illegal for the government to kill an American who did not pose an imminent threat to security.

But he could not rule out the use of drones on American soil altogether, saying only that he doubted it would happen because it’s easier to capture people here.   (continue reading at Washington Times)

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Comments

[McCloud]

Paul is just doing what Carney and Obama do at press conferences..

As to holding out for the documents, it's the only leverage they have. Of course it will be spun as partisan point-scoring.