CIA Secrecy on Drone Attacks Data Hides Abuses

Inter Press Service by Gareth Porter | Jun. 12, 2009 (News Report)

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's refusal to share with other agencies even the most basic data on the bombing attacks by remote-controlled unmanned predator drones in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region, combined with recent revelations that CIA operatives have been paying Pakistanis to identify the targets, suggests that managers of the drone attacks programmes have been using the total secrecy surrounding the programme to hide abuses and high ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S., Politics
Topics: Afghanistan, Foreign Policy, Obama Administration, CIA
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Jun 15, 2009 - 3:46 AM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Jun. 15, 2009

Buying intelligence and murdering innocents and concealing negative or embarrassing results under the cloak of state secrets is alienating Afghanis and destroying any facade of civilian control of the military. Porter does some good investigative reporting here.

And we have to buy intelligence because we fired our translator for being gay?

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