{"id":1108,"date":"2012-02-09T03:05:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T03:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/09\/liberals-dems-approve-of-drone-strikes-on\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:28:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:28:48","slug":"liberals-dems-approve-of-drone-strikes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/09\/liberals-dems-approve-of-drone-strikes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals, Dems approve of drone strikes on American citizens abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1157452638\/liberals-dems-approve-of-drone-strikes-on-american-citizens-abroad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1157452638\/liberals-dems-approve-of-drone-strikes-on-american-citizens-abroad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/IkF7QJa99aHGcK8iXhTU3jl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>The Post has just released some new polling that demonstrates very strong support for Obama\u2019s counterterrorism policies, including 83 percent of Americans approving of his use of drone strikes against terror suspects overseas.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/post\/liberals-dems-approve-of-drone-strikes-on-american-citizens-abroad\/2012\/02\/08\/gIQAIqCzyQ_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via washingtonpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesThe Post has just released some new polling that demonstrates very strong support for Obama\u2019s counterterrorism policies, including 83 percent of Americans approving of his use of drone strikes against terror suspects overseas.Via washingtonpost.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1364,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/14\/us-put-new-restrictions-on-cia-drone-strikes-in\/","url_meta":{"origin":1108,"position":0},"title":"U.S. put new restrictions on CIA drone strikes in Pakistan","author":"aslam","date":"November 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesThe White House over the summer put new restrictions on CIA drone strikes in the wake of concerns that the program was primarily targeting lower-level militants while provoking anger in Pakistan , U.S. officials said. \u00a0Via www.latimes.com","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1499,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/08\/12\/drone-war-exposed-the-complete-picture-of-cia\/","url_meta":{"origin":1108,"position":1},"title":"Drone War Exposed \u2013 the complete picture of CIA strikes in Pakistan: TBIJ","author":"aslam","date":"August 12, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesCIA drone strikes have led to far more deaths in Pakistan than previously understood, according to extensive new research published by the Bureau. 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