Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, issued the new limits on drone strikes the day Mr. Biden was inaugurated.Credit...Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times
Requiring higher-level approval is a stopgap measure as officials review whether to tighten Trump-era targeting rules and civilian safeguards.
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has quietly imposed temporary limits on counterterrorism drone strikes and commando raids outside conventional battlefield zones like Afghanistan and Syria, and it has begun a broad review of whether to tighten Trump-era rules for such operations, according to officials.
The military and the C.I.A. must now obtain White House permission to attack terrorism suspects in poorly governed places where there are scant American ground troops, like Somalia and Yemen.
Under the Trump administration, they had been allowed to decide for themselves whether circumstances on the ground met certain conditions and an attack was justified.
Officials characterized the tighter controls as a stopgap while the Biden administration reviewed how targeting worked — both on paper and in practice — under former President Donald J. Trump and developed its own policy and procedures for counterterrorism kill-or-capture operations outside war zones, including how to minimize the risk of civilian casualties.
The Biden administration did not announce the new limits. But the national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, issued the order on Jan. 20, the day of President Biden’s inauguration, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
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WNU Editor: Another leak from the Pentagon and/or the intelligence community on a secret Biden policy.
A prediction.
On the policy of drone strikes the White House is going to return to the Obama-era approach that was characterized by centralized oversight and high-level vetting of intelligence about individual terrorism suspects. Bottom line. A return to the White House micromanaging drone strikes.
More News On the Biden Administration Secretly Limiting Drone strikes
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14 comments:
Ignorant. Beyond comprehension. Especially after having spent so much of one's life in government.
Do the White House staffer think that you are ignorant? You spent so many years in government and yet they are the ones near the seat of power. They are after all in their minds the smartest kids in the room.
time in govt>? postoffice delivery guy?
CIA?
NSA?
there are thousands of jobs that are govt jobs and that in itself does not offer special insights into this issue
Your credentials 12:38? Got an assist in writing one book on a topic countless thousands have written about?
Micro management is a loosing strategy in a world where everything is fast. Centralized decision is heavy and slow. Leftist just want power, no matter what.
article in NZY Times...do not believe it! wait till Hannity confirms
NZY Times hahahahahaha! Oh yes I believe!
I have 10 main news sources I read in a day. Fox and Hannity are not among them. I do like Hannity's show and I might start listening to it again. You got me reading Breitbart again. So maybe in the near future Hannity can thank you for me listening to or watching his show again.
It's easy to see where micromanaging a war once took us. Just ask Lyndon Johnson.
Thanks 3:33 . I am seriously thinking of listening to Hannity again. Why not. I use to listen to Colmes, Hightower (a real screamer), Randi Rhodes, and Thom Hartman. I also use to listen to Air America, but it was quite hard to actually. Yu had to listen fast b3ecqse it was off the air fast. IMO in order of listenability it would be Rhodes, Hartman, Colmes, Hightower.
I do you you well 3:33. I wish I could condemn you to listening to Hightower for the rest of existence. He yells at the top of his lungs all the time. In a way he compliments you. You often scream while commenting and he screams on air. You two should get a room and make beautiful music.
"Just ask Lyndon Johnson."
That is unfair. Lyndon had fun playing with his toy soldiers on his Khe Sanh table top sand box.
I do you you well
corrected
I do wish you well
I am old school. I do not think the CIA or our military should decide on their own who and where to strike outside a war zone. Why would I want an agency that operates in total secrecy to bomb any place they decide to strike? Might hit Mar Lago
A rule of law argument. It does not matter what the letter of the law is if a person is determined is violate it.
A person like Brennan could obey the forms of the laws, regulations and policies and still go about doing whatever he wanted.
Brennan could not legally spy on Trump by Law. So he contacted friendly foreign spy services to do it for him. So yes, no CIA assets were used and no records generated. Letter of the law obeyed.
If Brennan or some other jackasses want to hit Mar Largo, they wont do it with an American drone. Instead they will outsource it and have a cutout.
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