Rand Paul defends Obama on drones

Reuters/Joel Page Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky). Presidential candidate and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) doesn’t believe you should blame President Barack Obama for the inadvertent death of an American hostage and an Italian hostage of al Qaeda in a US drone strike last January. “I tend to not want to blame the president for the loss of life here. I think he was trying to do the right thing,” Paul said Monday on Fox News. Paul was responding to last week’s revelation that a US counterterro