Droning On 0
Asia Times considers internal CIA dynamics as an impetus to increase its use of robot killing. Read it all.
Here’s a snippet from deep in the article:
That decision meant that analysts who chose to specialize in targeting for CIA drone operations were promised that they could stay within that specialty and get promotions throughout their careers. Thus the agency had made far-reaching commitments to its own staff in the expectation that the drone war would grow far beyond the three strikes a year and that it would continue indefinitely.
By 2007, the agency realized that, in order to keep those commitments, it had to get the White House to change the rules by relaxing existing restrictions on drone strikes.
File this under “Why am I not surprised.”
