President's Obama's firm approval, CIA pilotless Predator and harvester whirr planes firing Hellfire arsenal are killing actual and alleged high-level terrorists. As Jane Perlez reports flying overhead, sometimes four at a time in Pakistan, the drones are also betrothed in targeted assassinations in Afghanistan. It has been reported but the CIA and President Obama give us no facts that in his first year, Obama has approved more of these strikes than in George W. Bush's eight years.
Operated half a world away by remote control in Langley, Va. and outside of Las Vegas, the deaths sometimes accidentally include those of guiltless civilians, and are criticized here and in the targeted countries as extra-judicial executions.
Amid the growing argument, State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh insists that these whine attacks fulfill with all applicable law, including the laws of war.
Koh, when he was Dean of Yale Law School, was a strong opponent of the legal rationalizations of the Bush-Cheney war on terrorism. He is now part of what I call The Obama alteration, along with such other fervent opponents of the previous administration's dark side as Attorney General Eric Holder and CIA Director Leon Panetta. These former critics are now loyal members of the Obama team.
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