Washington, October 21 (RHC)-- U.S. President Barack Obama has announced his nomination of former Pentagon general counsel Jeh Johnson to become the next secretary of Homeland Security, replacing Janet Napolitano.
Jeh Johnson played a key role in crafting policies used to guide the U.S. drone wars and the detention of terror suspects. During a speech at Oxford University last year, Johnson rejected the terms "indefinite detention" and "extrajudicial killings," which are frequently used to describe how the administration detains and assassinates people without charge or trial. He said such terms might be appropriate in a law enforcement setting, but not in the context of what he called "a war" with al-Qaeda and its "associated forces."
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