Obama's Kill List Not The First

This striking new transparency, the official acknowledgment for the first time of a broad-based US assassination and targeted killing programme, has resulted from the unprecedented and controversial visibility of drone warfare. Drones now make news every day, and those of us who have been protesting their use for years have heightened their visibility in the public eye, forcing official acknowledgment and fostering worldwide scrutiny. This new scrutiny focuses not only on drone use but also, and perhaps more importantly, on the targeted killing itself - and the ‘kill lists’ that make them possible. MORE

Another reason for the new transparency is that Obama wants to give it out that he is a hard man in the FP arena. Good for electability in the US.