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Blacked out! Details of U.S. drone plans
WND ^ | March 5, 2014 | Steve Peacock

Posted on 03/05/2014 6:03:18 PM PST by Steve Peacock

Obama administration hiding costs, names of decision-makers from public

A planning document uncovered by WND reveals that the Obama administration is hiding certain details from the public – including costs and the names of decision-makers – regarding “special projects” governing the federal government’s global deployment of U.S. and ally drones.

The document indicates the government is extending support of unidentified Overseas Contingency Operations, or OCOs, for up to 15 additional months.

A break in service also could have affected what was, as of January, the “imminent release” of armed MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper surveillance drones to new Foreign Military Sales, or FMS, customers, the document says.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: drones; specialops; surveillance; whirlednutdoobie; worldnutdaily

1 posted on 03/05/2014 6:03:19 PM PST by Steve Peacock
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To: Steve Peacock

MSM doesn’t seem to mind this at all.

They went into a tizzy when Bush did it.


2 posted on 03/05/2014 6:09:18 PM PST by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: Steve Peacock

4700 people killed and the left could care less. Hypocrites!


3 posted on 03/05/2014 7:09:12 PM PST by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
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To: Steve Peacock; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

4 posted on 03/05/2014 7:55:01 PM PST by null and void ( Obama is Law-Less because Republican "leaders" are BALL-LESS!!)
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To: Steve Peacock

Huh? What am I outraged at, again? That they’re selling drone equipment to allies? Uh... OK. Why am I outraged at that?


5 posted on 03/05/2014 7:59:00 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: Linda Frances

4700? Huh?


6 posted on 03/05/2014 8:00:00 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: Linda Frances

1.2m Americans are killed every year by the policies of the left.

do you really think they have a problems with 4700 more?


7 posted on 03/05/2014 8:16:58 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Ramius; sten

I was just saying the left are hypocrites. If Bush did this, there would be breaking news on all the alphabet channels, cable channels and even sesame street.


The Huffington Post reported recently that under President Obama’s direction, the U.S. drone program has killed an estimated 2,400 people.

The report said that in Pakistan alone, between 416 and 951 innocent civilians, including 168-200 children, have been killed by Obama’s drone program.

It said a strike by an American drone in Yemen only weeks ago reportedly killed 12 civilians.

But a year ago, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a supporter of drone raids, suggested to the London Telegraph that the drone program death toll actually was 4,700.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/03/blacked-out-details-of-u-s-drone-plans/#MVQQUxJwQ2xW5Hmf.99


8 posted on 03/06/2014 5:16:32 AM PST by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
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To: null and void

Constitution? Constitution? I don’t need no dirty, stink in’, Constitution


9 posted on 03/06/2014 7:10:19 AM PST by Nifster
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