Secrecy reigns over deadly program
(NEWSER) - The CIA has ramped up its drone strikes under President Obama, killing somewhere between 1,350 and 2,250 people in Pakistan alone over the past three years. Yet the US has identified virtually none of those victims, nor provided any legal rationale for their killings, the Washington Post observes, and that’s got civil liberties experts and the international community on edge. When one State Department legal adviser sought to lay out the legal basis in a speech to put allies at ease, “the immediate reaction was you can’t talk about our covert programs,” one official says. More»
