U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Has Approved Plans For More Surveillance Over Drone Strikes

A U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle assigned to the California Air National Guard's 163rd Reconnaissance Wing flies near the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, California in this January 7, 2012 USAF handout photo obtained by Reuters February 6, 2013. Credit: Reuters/U.S. Air Force/Tech. Sgt. Effrain Lopez/Handout

Senate Panel Approves Beefed-Up Oversight Of Drone Attacks -- Reuters

(Reuters) - The Senate Intelligence Committee has quietly approved a plan to step up both public and internal government oversight of the use of armed drones to kill suspected militants overseas, including American citizens.

The committee voted in closed session earlier this week to approve legislative language that would require U.S. spy agencies to make public statistics on how many people were killed or injured in missile strikes launched from U.S.-operated drones.

The committee also approved language intended to bolster scrutiny of secret spy agency deliberations over decisions about targeting U.S. citizens or residents for lethal drone strikes overseas.

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 My Comment:  The committee voted in closed session .... which tells me that these oversights will also be held in secret and (probably) changing nothing.