The Guardian: John McCain: drone strikes should be run by US military, not the CIA
US senator says strike in Pakistan that killed western hostages ‘was probably preventable, in that there was an obvious breakdown in intelligence’
Drone strikes against suspected enemy combatants on foreign soil should be run by the US military and not the CIA, Senate armed services committee chairman John McCain said on Sunday.
McCain made his remarks on CNN, days after it was disclosed that a drone strike in Pakistan in January mistakenly killed two western hostages: an American and an Italian.
“I think it was probably preventable, in that there was an obvious breakdown in intelligence. They didn’t know that they were there,” McCain said of the January drone strike.
Update: McCain Renews Push to End CIA Control of Drone Strikes -- Bloomberg
WNU Editor: Sen. John McCain wants his committee to oversee the U.S. drone strike program and not the intelligence committee .... and on this issue he has his Democrat supporters ....but I doubt that it will be enough.
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It's a dirtier fight than that.
The CIA is legislated to report to Congress on it's programs, the SOF fall into a loophole, where they "can" as Bush did, be required to only report to the President.
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