{"id":1245,"date":"2011-12-20T05:03:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T05:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20\/secrecy-defines-obamas-drone-war\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:26","slug":"secrecy-defines-obamas-drone-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/20\/secrecy-defines-obamas-drone-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Secrecy defines Obama\u2019s drone war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/849400558\/secrecy-defines-obama-s-drone-war\" 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\/849400558\/secrecy-defines-obama-s-drone-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/dz-xmXlVaLZtmB3r6h0BDzl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/> The Obama administration is resisting calls for it to explain its rules for the drone attacks that have killed as many as 2,250 people in Pakistan in the past three years. \u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/secrecy-defines-obamas-drone-war\/2011\/10\/28\/gIQAPKNR5O_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via washingtonpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; Liberties The Obama administration is resisting calls for it to explain its rules for the drone attacks that have killed as many as 2,250 people in Pakistan in the past three years. \u00a0Via 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-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1108,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/09\/liberals-dems-approve-of-drone-strikes-on\/","url_meta":{"origin":1245,"position":0},"title":"Liberals, Dems approve of drone strikes on American citizens abroad","author":"aslam","date":"February 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & 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","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1364,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/14\/us-put-new-restrictions-on-cia-drone-strikes-in\/","url_meta":{"origin":1245,"position":1},"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":995,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/06\/15\/dod-current-and-future-us-drone-activities-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1245,"position":2},"title":"DoD Current and Future U.S.\u2026","author":"aslam","date":"June 15, 2012","format":"image","excerpt":"DoD Current and Future U.S. Drone Activities Map | Public Intelligence via https:\/\/publicintelligence.net\/dod-us-drone-activities-map\/","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/melange.dmaculate.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m5n22bns671qdd1i8o1_75sq.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":985,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/06\/20\/obama-administrations-drone-death-figures-dont\/","url_meta":{"origin":1245,"position":3},"title":"Obama Administration?s Drone Death Figures\u2026","author":"aslam","date":"June 20, 2012","format":"image","excerpt":"Obama Administration?s Drone Death Figures Don?t Add Up - @ProPublica via http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/obama-drone-death-figures-dont-add-up","rel":"","context":"In \"drones\"","block_context":{"text":"drones","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/tag\/drones\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/melange.dmaculate.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m5wi1zle7x1qdd1i8o1_640.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/melange.dmaculate.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m5wi1zle7x1qdd1i8o1_640.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/melange.dmaculate.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m5wi1zle7x1qdd1i8o1_640.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1289,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/13\/police-employ-predator-drone-spy-planes-on-home\/","url_meta":{"origin":1245,"position":4},"title":"Police employ Predator drone spy planes on home front","author":"aslam","date":"December 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties Armed with a search warrant, Nelson County Sheriff Kelly Janke went looking for six missing cows on the Brossart family farm in the early evening of June 23. 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