Last Friday, Deputy National Security Advisor John Brennen addressed our drone programs, calling it "covert action." Scott Horton turns up the heat:
One of the White House’s explanations for this move is that it is trying to accommodate local governments that have approved at least some of the strikes but don’t want their approval to be public fact. At this point, however, such claims verge on the absurd. The drone war in Pakistan is not a discrete handful of strikes; it is a full-fledged military campaign, with clear military objectives, sustained at high levels over many years. The people of Pakistan certainly know what’s going on—a recent survey of U.S. and Pakistani press coverage suggested that the label "covert action" keeps the drone program secret from the people of the United States, and no one else.
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