Weather Forecast   Amy Goodman: Rand Paul’s filibuster of John
Brennan       Nearing hour six of his filibuster, Sen. Paul
admitted: “I can’t ultimately stop the nomination, but what I
can do is try to draw attention to this and try to get an answer
... that would be something if we could get an answer from the
president ... if he would say explicitly that noncombatants in
America won’t be killed by drones. The reason it has to be
answered is because our foreign drone strike program does kill
noncombatants. They may argue that they are conspiring or they
may someday be combatants, but if that is the same standard that
we are going to use in the United States, it is a far different
country than I know about.”   Rand Paul’s filibuster followed a
curious route, including references to Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in
Wonderland,” and quotes from noted progressive, constitutional
attorney and Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald and blogger
Kevin Gosztala of Firedoglake.  U.S. Attorney General Eric
Holder sent a letter to