"President Donald Trump has overturned an Obama-era requirement for
intelligence officials to publish an annual report on air strikes in
places like Yemen, Libya and Pakistan — a document that experts called
the main means for publishing official information about CIA drone
strikes."
This
sounds like Trump is making Obama’s drone program even worse. But
Obama’s policy was more dishonest. The Obama administration assumed that every adult male killed by drones was a “combatant,” not a civilian,
unless that was disproven by specific evidence. In effect, Barack Obama
profiled Central Asian or Middle Eastern men by presuming them guilty.
At least Donald Trump is going to openly not care about the civilians we
kill, which, while callous, is less misleading than Obama’s statistics on civilian deaths that were artificially lowered based on gender and
nationality bias.
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