Posted on 06/06/2013 6:47:22 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
The CIA did not always know who it was targeting and killing in drone strikes in Pakistan over a 14-month period, an NBC News review of classified intelligence reports shows.
About one of every four of those killed by drones in Pakistan between Sept. 3, 2010, and Oct. 30, 2011, were classified as "other militants,” the documents detail. The “other militants” label was used when the CIA could not determine the affiliation of those killed, prompting questions about how the agency could conclude they were a threat to U.S. national security.
The uncertainty appears to arise from the use of so-called “signature” strikes to eliminate suspected terrorists -- picking targets based in part on their behavior and associates. A former White House official said the U.S. sometimes executes people based on “circumstantial evidence.”
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Of course our Nobel Peace Prize winna can always blame the CIA.
Not his fault, NEVER his fault, you know.
“They have beards and machine guns, that’s good enough for us!”
I don’t really care if we know their name. Do we know they are an enemy?
And thus the takedown of Barry Obama by p*ssed off spooks continues.
Yeah and the Patriot Act was only for foreign intelligence gathering. yep, they would only collect records for overseas calls. Yeah...
Now drones..it’s them, not us...
I have never understood how we can send a marine into combat and he double taps an enemy soldier to make sure that soldier does not come around and kill him, then we convict that soldier of murder.
Yet we can blow up somebody we don’t know with a drone and everything is fine.
islamist=enemy
barry soetoro is an islamist.
Well that's ok then as long as it wasn't FNC.
Knowing what we know about the competence of our government, how can we have any confidence in a program like this? I certainly have very little.
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