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CIA drone strikes will get pass in counterterrorism ‘playbook,’ officials say
The Obama administration is nearing completion of a detailed counterterrorism manual that is designed to establish clear rules for targeted-killing operations but leaves open a major exemption for the CIA’s campaign of drone strikes
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Obama administration needs to explain drone strikes
The Obama administration, having killed a 16-year-old American boy, refuses to explain why in court. The boy, Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi, was born in Denver and lived there until he was 7, when his family moved to
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Revealed: U.S. carried out 333 drone strikes in Afghanistan this year alone – more than the entire drone strikes in Pakistan over the past eight years COMBINED
The United States carried out more drone strikes in Afghanistan this year than it has done in all the years put together in Pakistan since it launched the covert air war there eight years
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US Drone Pilot asks ”Did We Just Kill A Kid?” — Commander Tells him it Was Just a Dog with 2 Legs
The New Mexico desert gets blistering hot, but inside the small windowless container where Brandon Bryant worked as a drone operator for the U.S. Air Force it stays a cool 63 degrees all year
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Obama Wipes Away Fake Tears
In a performance that would assuredly not win him an Oscar, Obama pretended to wipe away tears today during a news conference following the school massacre in Connecticut
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New Documents Show Military Is Flying Drones Throughout US
Thousands of pages of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) documents released under the Freedom Of Information Act highlight that the military is extensively flying surveillance drones in non-restricted skies throughout the country. The records, released by
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Obama Bombs Yemen Hours After Winning Reelection
Not even a full day had passed before newly reelected President Obama ordered another drone strike in Yemen. A U.S. drone strike targeted a group of al-Qaida militants on the outskirts
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Pakistan Interior Minister: 80% Killed By Drones Are Innocents
Pakistan’s interior minister Rehman Malik stated Wednesday that up to 8 out of 10 people killed in US drone strikes inside his country are completely innocent civilians. Repeating a plea he made to the US
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New drone has no pilot anywhere, so who’s accountable?
The Navy is testing an autonomous plane that will land on an aircraft carrier. The prospect of heavily armed aircraft screaming through the skies without direct human control is unnerving to many
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