Trump revokes Obama-era rule on reporting civilians killed in drone strikes.

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  1. Nemesis

    Nemesis Well-Known Member

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    https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/06/trump-civilian-deaths-drone-strikes-1207409

    President Donald Trump has overturned an Obama-era requirement for intelligence officials to publish an annual report on air strikes in places like Yemen, Libya and Pakistan — a document that experts called the main means for publishing official information about CIA drone strikes.

    In an executive order signed Wednesday, Trump canceled a three-year-old requirement for the director of national intelligence to release an unclassified report on May 1 every year tallying U.S. air strikes outside of specified major conflict zones, as well as estimates of militant and civilian casualties caused by those strikes.

    The report — which the administration failed to release last year — was required to include not just military strikes but strikes conducted by other government agencies. The only non-military agency known to conduct air strikes is the CIA, whose drone---there's more!
     
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    Spooky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The only part they overturned was the requirement for the CIA to report what they were doing.

    That should just be common sense that you don't let our spy agencies secrets out there.

    lol
     
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    If our CIA is killing innocent civilians the American public and the world has right to know.We aren't communist North Korea or China.
     
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    Jonsa Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Transparency when killing innocent civilians isn't all that some crack it up to be.
     

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