Monday 2 January 2012

Drones - Killing With No Accountability

In Yemen, for instance, the CIA and the military's Joint Special Operations Command pursue the same adversary with nearly identical aircraft. But they alternate taking the lead on strikes to exploit their separate authorities, and they maintain separate kill lists that overlap but don't match. CIA and military strikes this fall killed three U.S. citizens, two of whom were suspected al-Qaeda operatives...
Obama himself was "oddly passive in this world," the former official said, tending to defer on drone policy to senior aides whose instincts often dovetailed with the institutional agendas of the CIA and JSOC. Full article here.
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2 comments:

  1. James Gundun2 January 2012 at 14:36

    Yemen's relationship between policy and drones represents a higher level of failure than Pakistan or Somalia, yet receives the least attention of nearly any area of U.S. foreign policy. Yemen's "threat" and political/media blackout are directly linked. Somewhat amusingly, Yemen is hailed as a "success" when U.S. officials do speak.

    Limited accountability over military decisions is sketchy enough, but the same cover over political decisions is the real killer.

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  2. TONY @oakroyd2 January 2012 at 15:22

    Couldn't agree more. The irony is not lost on me that US FP is supposed to be in support of democracy. Supporting democracy with lies, spin, obfuscation, political assassination (direct and proxy) and anonymous annihilations.

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