Trump gives CIA power to launch drone strikes: report

[William Tell]

The CIA has reportedly been given the power by President Trump to launch drone strikes against suspected terrorists.

The new authority is a change in drone policy from the Obama administration, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday citing U.S. officials.

Under the Obama administration, the CIA used drones to find suspected terrorists. But the military then launched the strikes.

That policy lent itself to more transparency, because the Pentagon is required to publicly report most airstrikes.

The CIA's new authority, which was reportedly provided by Trump shortly after his inauguration, was used in February in a strike against a senior al Qaeda leader in Syria, Abu al-Khayr al-Masri.


Spokesmen for the Pentagon and CIA declined to comment to the Wall Street Journal.

U.S. officials said that the new authority under Trump is only for the CIA's operations in Syria. But according to the Wall Street Journal, the CIA may be able to conduct drone strikes in other areas as well.

“There are a lot of problems with the drone program and the targeted killing program, but the CIA should be out of the business of ordering lethal strikes,” said Christopher Anders, deputy director of the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union.

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/323808-trump-gives-cia-power-to-launch-drone-strikes-report

 

[CaptUSA]

Ok, this had better be fake news.

 

[shakey1]

Well, that's a bit scary... why would he do that when the spook community is purportedly working against him? Am I missing something here?

 

[William Tell]

Ok, this had better be fake news.

Well, imagine what Hillary would have done. I mean, she might have let the CIA launch drone strikes.

 

[CPUd]

Well, that's a bit scary... why would he do that when the spook community is purportedly working against him? Am I missing something here?

 

[TheCount]

Well, imagine what Hillary would have done. I mean, she might have let the CIA launch drone strikes.

She wouldn't have stopped there, she would have done something crazy like put boots on the ground in Syria.

Thankfully we elected a non-interventionist.

 

[phill4paul]

First the abdication of war power to his generals and now the C.I.A. Trumps foreign policy is as bad. if not worse, than the preceding presidents. If this keeps up the Trump supporters aren't gonna be able to use "Better than Hillary" as an excuse.

 

[CPUd]

First the abdication of war power to his generals and now the C.I.A. Trumps foreign policy is as bad. if not worse, than the preceding presidents. If this keeps up the Trump supporters aren't gonna be able to use "Better than Hillary" as an excuse.

Hopefully he will end the program and give back war powers to the Congress once he defeats the terrorists.

 

[CaptUSA]

First the abdication of war power to his generals and now the C.I.A. Trumps foreign policy is as bad. if not worse, than the preceding presidents. If this keeps up the Trump supporters aren't gonna be able to use "Better than Hillary" as an excuse.

Oh, but just think of how more "efficiently" we'll be able to kill people and piss off their families! Hillary could only dream of being this efficient. This is why we needed a "winner"!

 

[nikcers]

Now the fake news will report the Obama is using the CIA to sabotage Trump's presidency and its Obama who is really ordering all of the drone strikes Checkmate Ronpaulforums

 

[undergroundrr]

 

[TheCount]

Now the fake news will report the Obama is using the CIA to sabotage Trump's presidency and its Obama who is really ordering all of the drone strikes Checkmate Ronpaulforums

Pretty soon I'm going to need a Glenn Beck chalkboard to keep track of this 10D chess.

 

[nikcers]

Pretty soon I'm going to need a Glenn Beck chalkboard to keep track of this 10D chess.

This is the only chess game Trump is playing with us.

 

[oyarde]

If this is true it is a new worst if that is possible . Consider this , the military was the last part of govt to have any accountability and oversight that has not been compromised by the govt and courts .

 

[enhanced_deficit]

ISIS is not going to be same without him.



In his final months in office, Obama sought to restrict drone attacks, targetted killings


To give credit where due, last DGP tried to put his drone policy, that killed/maimed thousands of civilians including children/women/men, in some sort of lockbox before leaving office. Now Trump has found the lockbox and trying to break open it.
This story cites Trump's desire to eliminate ISIS, incidentally Trump had called Obama "founder of ISIS" ( Trump: Barack Obama 'Is the Founder of ISIS' ).


The source has been implicated in fakenews in the past but this story seems to be legit and validated by other sources:

Trump administration reviewing ways to make it easier to launch drone strikes
In this 2010 photo, a U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field in southern Afghanistan. (Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP)
By Greg Jaffe and Karen DeYoung March 13 at 9:00 PM

In his final months in office, President Barack Obama sought to lock in a structure and set of rules governing targeted killings and drone strikes so that the in*cred*ibly lethal tool would not be abused by his successors.
In his first six weeks in office, President Trump, who has made destroying the Islamic State his top foreign policy priority, has pressed to roll back some of those checks.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...39ced0-07f8-11e7-b77c-0047d15a24e0_story.html



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[afwjam]

Oh yeah, let's compare one horrible president to another, that should make our horrible president look good. Trump Cucksucking shills are hilarious.