CIA Remains Behind Most Drone Strikes, Despite Effort To Shift Campaign To Defense -- Washington Post
When missiles fired by CIA drones slammed into Yemen and Pakistan last week, the attacks ended a period of relative quiet for the Obama administration’s lethal counterterrorism program. They also served as a reminder that the CIA is not ready to relinquish its role in the drone war.
Six months after President Obama signaled his desire to shift the campaign to the Defense Department, the CIA’s drone operations center in Langley, Va., is still behind the vast majority of strikes.
And although senior CIA and Pentagon officials have held meetings in recent months aimed at finding a way for the military’s elite U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to take over the job, U.S. officials said the White House vision is a distant goal.
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My Comment: So much for the talk a few months back on the Pentagon being responsible for drone strikes that they would conduct under their specific rules of engagement. The reason why this shift has not happened is simple .... the rules of engagement are more stricter under Pentagon rules than the CIA's, and America's terror hunters do not want to be limited when they have found a high valued target that needs to be eliminated.
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