We might as well laugh about it, as Conan O'Brien did last
night: "President Obama can order drone strikes on American
citizens. So this is the last joke I will be doing."  Yep,
drones are the new normal. CIA director-nominee John Brennan
made this clear yesterday during his Senate confirmation
hearing. He essentially said that the Obama White House would
continue to target suspected bad guys (including American
citizens) for remote-control assassination, free of oversight or
due process niceties.  Brennan escaped unscathed at day's end
without having enlightened us on the assassination criteria; we
still don't now what constitutes an "imminent" threat, or what
constitutes "membership" in a terrorist group. Granted,
Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden told Brennan that it's wrong to give
any president "unfettered power to kill an American without
checks and balances." But senators on the Intelligence panel
failed to pin Brennan down - in part because the drone program
particulars remain classified, in part because the