Counterterror rulebook exempts drone war

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:11:00 +0000

As part of its continuing series on the Obama administration's targeted killing program, the Washington Post reported Saturday that a proposed manual of rules for counterterrorism programs is near completion. However, according to the Post, the manual "leaves open a major exemption for the CIA’s campaign of drone strikes in Pakistan, U.S. officials said."

In previous reports about the proposed Manual, the Post's Miller noted that the codification of kill lists and other current counterterror practices into a manual illustrates that programs once considered emergency post-9/11 measures have been crystallized as permanent fixtures of our national security apparatus. Miller, Ellen Nakashima and Karen DeYoung repeated this point Saturday:

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Counterterror rulebook exempts drone war