The U.S. Use Of Drones For Targeted Killings Is Still Shrouded In Secrecy

Rachel Stohl, National Interest: All the President’s Drones: Obama’s Targeted-Killing Problem

The White House’s secrecy regarding the U.S. drone program has not done it any favors.

WHEN THE Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its “torture report” in December 2014, it reignited the battle over the George W. Bush administration’s conduct of the “war on terror.” Unfortunately, the interrogation program was not an anomaly in its lack of transparency. A similar problem exists with the U.S. drone program—which, after more than ten years of use and nearly two years after President Barack Obama’s speech promising greater transparency and accountability, remains shrouded in secrecy and uncertainty.

The U.S. Use Of Drones For targeted Killings Is Still Shrouded In Secrecy

If an internal critique of the U.S. drone program exists, it has been kept from open discussion and debate. Yet the most basic questions about the program have not been answered: What are the goals of the program? Are drones effective in accomplishing those goals? What metric is used to evaluate their effectiveness? 

WNU Editor: This is an issue that is going to remain for a long time .... but what still astounds me is the complete lack of protests and demonstrations from the usual anti-war movement on this drone policy.