LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: Leaked docs detail expansive drone campaign.
Among other conclusions, the documents appear to indicate that unintended casualties of drone strikes sometimes far outweigh those of the intended targets. In one five-month period, for instance, just one in 10 people killed in airstrikes was the declared target.
The Obama administration has often boasted about the minimal number of civilians killed during drone strikes, but it has tended to consider unidentified people near or associating with identified targets to be suspected terrorists.
People killed in targeted strikes who were not specifically targeted by the attacks are nonetheless labeled “enemies killed in action,” the documents show.
Additionally, the military has faced “critical shortfalls” in the technology and ability to find suspected terrorists in Yemen and Somalia, the documents assert, showing limits to U.S. intelligence resources.
Good thing we got rid of that dumb cowboy Bush.