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Deep Support in Washington for C.I.A.’s Drone Missions
About once a month, staff members of the congressional intelligence committees drive across the Potomac River to C.I.A. headquarters in Langley, Va., and watch videos of people being blown up.
As part of the macabre ritual the staff members look at the footage of drone strikes in Pakistan and other countries and a sampling of the intelligence buttressing each strike, but not the internal C.I.A. cables discussing the attacks and their aftermath. The screenings have provided a veneer of congressional oversight and have led lawmakers to claim that the targeted killing program is subject to rigorous review, to defend it vigorously in public and to authorize its sizable budget each year.
That unwavering support from Capitol Hill is but one reason the C.I.A.’s killing missions are embedded in American warfare and unlikely to change significantly despite President Obama’s announcement on Thursday that a drone strikeaccidentally killed two innocent hostages, an American and an Italian. The program is under fire like never before, but the White House continues to champion it, and C.I.A. officers who built the program more than a decade ago — some of whom also led the C.I.A. detention program that used torture in secret prisons — have ascended to the agency’s powerful senior ranks.
Although lawmakers insist that there is great accountability to the program, interviews with administration and congressional officials show that Congress holds the program to less careful scrutiny than many members assert. Top C.I.A. officials, who learned the importance of cultivating Congress after the resistance they ran into on the detention program, have dug in to protect the agency’s drone operations, frustrating a pledge by Mr. Obama two years ago to overhaul the program and pull it from the shadows.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/26...ions.html?_r=1
The MIC, the Deep State make policy, and ALL politicians follow along or are totally ineffective in objecting.
Hope. Change.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_7146172.htmlSenate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Sunday the accidental deaths of two innocent hostages killed during a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan were “obviously preventable.”
Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, McCain said “there was an obvious breakdown in intelligence.”
“It was obviously preventable, but the question then is do we continue these drone strikes and how important are they? It is clearly a subject for review by both Intelligence and Armed Services Committees and the entire Congress,” McCain said.
"Ba Ba Ba Bomb Iran.
You got me rockin' and a-rollin'
Rockin' and a-reelin'
Ba Ba Ba Bomb Iran."
Senile, emotionally unstable McLiar would be bombing Iran, or pushing Bishop Gecko to drone the entire M/E, but a (black) Dem Pres? "overreach, errors, mistakes, preventable"
Deep Support in Washington for C.I.A.’s Drone Missions
and the Murdoch repug WSJ piles on
Obama Kept Looser Rules for Drones in Pakistan
http://www.wsj.com/articles/obama-ke...tan-1430092626
They've all gone SOFT ON TERRORISM!
are you for Obama's drone wars or against them?
my post had nothing to do with my position on drones, but about bloodthirsty warmongering neocon McLiar turning cir spect ONLY about Obama's drones, which are in fact controlled, both in policy and technically, by the CIA, not anybody's WH.
executive branch. who's the boss?
more collateral damage, allegedly:
http://www.newsweek.com/american-ada...lled-us-324465
the Deep State
ah yes, very good. can you put that in a nuts for posters who may not be familiar with the term?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...afa_story.htmlTwo Pakistani intelligence officials, both of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity, said they believe Weinstein, Lo Porto and Farouq were killed during a Jan. 15 drone strike in the Shawal Valley in North Waziristan, part of Pakistan’s tribal belt.
papers leaked:
https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/
Hmmm...
I'm not going to wade through that. A link to several links, that appear to be a CT site.
care to make some selections for us?
what's a CT site?
don't worry, WC. it's just journalism. it won't hurt you.
The site is too click-baitish to interest me. The red fonts, the video gameish graphics.. seems a bit overdone for a "leak" site.
Allergic to reading? Your loss.
Anything new from what was released previously?
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...e+drone+papers
'Post-traumatic stress disorder is higher in drone operators'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/h...operators.html
A buddy of mine (former fighter pilot multiple tours in Afghanistan) now flies drones out of Las Vegas said the guys who have no actual war experience get ed in the head really quick.
it's a new leak. same themes, more granular detail.
you're free to read if you wish to be informed.
big boys can cut their own meat and feed themselves, right?
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