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In reply to the discussion: Drone plane manufacturing industry is writing the legislation that governs their use in the US [View all]sad sally
(2,627 posts)done some excellent digging thru freedom of information documents about the drone bases (tomdispatch).
It's especially troubling that the CIA, and who knows what other clandestine agencies, become more and more military-like and run these killing operations (in our country's name) that we know less and less, and blindly accept that its okay.
I also fear that the President may be being set up as a "patsy," and while he does and will always have the protection of presidential status, there may be those who would try to charge him with war crimes in the future. We know that Bush and Cheney could certainly be included in those types of charges and weren't, so maybe whatever truly wrongs presidents are guilty of the next one protects the last...it may be one of those rules we're not privy to.