Is the Trump administration preparing to increase the CIA's clandestine drone programme?
What does it matter if the United States government no longer wants to share details about who is being killed by its covert drone strikes when the information was never fully revealed in the first place?on Wednesday that allows the Central Intelligence Agency to stay mum over the information about people, including civilians, killed in drone strikes.
Since 2004, the CIA and the US military have carried out hundreds of drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Libya and Somalia – countries where Washington is not fighting a direct war but where it targets suspected terrorists. No one knows for sure exactly how many innocent lives have been consumed by weapons such as Hellfire missiles released from Reapers and Predator drones that fly thousands of feet in the air over people the United States has deemed worthy of being targeted.
Up until now, Washington had released scant details about the programme twice – both times by former president Barack Obama’s administration. And they were cumulative figures without a breakdown by year or country. Hardly any details about the locations of strikes or those killed in them come out from official channels. The CIA
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