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CIA Has ‘Acquired A Taste’ For Killing People With Drones; Won’t Give It Up

By Mike Masnick | Techdirt | November 6, 2013

The US’s use of drones is nothing if not controversial, and the overall secrecy around the program — including the belief that it can be used against Americans as well — has worried an awful lot of people. Even those in the administration who support the program apparently are uncomfortable with it implicitly, as the Obama administration had drawn up a whole bunch of rules that would limit drone killing… which they wanted to put in place in case Romeny won the election. But, when Obama won, they abandoned the idea. In other words, the position of the administration is basically, “trust us with these drone killing programs… but no one else.” Under significant pressure about all of this, the President finally announced in May that the drone killing program would be moved from the CIA to the Defense Department, where it would have more oversight (slightly) and limits.

Except, as Foreign Policy is now reporting, that isn’t actually happening and may never happen. The main reason appears to be fairly simple: the CIA loves killing people with these drones, and people in the Defense Department are kind of uncomfortable with doing so. So, the CIA wants to keep control, and the Defense Department doesn’t want it.

The U.S. official said that while the platforms and the capabilities are common to either the Agency or the Pentagon, there remain distinctly different approaches to “finding, fixing and finishing” terrorist targets. The two organizations also use different approaches to producing the “intelligence feeds” upon which drone operations rely. Perhaps more importantly, after years of conducting drone strikes, the CIA has developed an expertise and a taste for them. The DOD’s appetite to take over that mission may not run very deep.

Yes, the CIA has developed a taste for killing people from the skies with drones controlled from far away. It’s like a sport.

Remember when the US banned assassinations by the CIA? Yeah. Weren’t those the days?

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  1. Government of and by, bullies, cowards, and war criminals. And of course corporate criminals pushing imperialism, especially Zionist imperialism, which is the ism behind most or not all, our the disgraceful use of US economic and military resources.

    Constitutional governance does not exist in the United States when Constitutionally Protected Rights are wantonly violated arrogantly with impunity with the connivance of the cravenly complicit congress, which has the responsibility to impeach Obama and his co-conspirators; but they have not made any intelligible move in that direction!

    Why, well just look at them! They are down on their knees for the people, and swallow their pride and take the money. political prostitutes for political “donations” (for services rendered to be precise)! And the payments is recycled money they gave to Zionist Israel.

    So, it is treason, to sell out the country to another, to aid and abet the criminal activities it is constantly committing. These are Crimes Against Humanity; War Crimes, and genocide of the indigenous Palestinian people, in order to further invade Palestine, terrorize the Palestinian people, and steal their land, water, and history.

    9/11 was as much an Israeli psyop as it was an American one; and the corporate mass media; academia; and the Congress of the United States.

    The question is, how many duel-citizens (US and Israeli) are their in key positions in the white house, congress, the bench, the CIA, and US Armed Forces? And what are they doing there?!

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