The book has the best quote calling for a debate over America's death-from-the-air strategy that has soured ties with Pakistan and the Arab World. It is from Richard Blee, a retired CIA officer who was one of the creators of this nation's drone policy:
He told Mazzetti: "In the early days for our consciences, we wanted to know who we were killing before anyone pulled the trigger. Now we're lighting these people up all over the place . . . I we are going to hand out death sentences, there our to be some accountability and some public discussion about the whole thing."
The New America Foundation has a handy online scorecard that tracks U.S. drone strikes. It's bannered "The Year of the Drone."
NAF reports there have been 422 strikes in Pakistan and Yemen since 2004, 49 of them came during president George W. Bush’s reign. Up to 4,000 people have been killed by American drones.
April has been a busy month for anti-drone protests on college campuses throughout the country. A protest also was staged in D.C. on April 13.
Let the great drone debate begin. We'll be a better country for it.
Maggie Moran, who is well-connected in New Jersey and New York Democratic politics, has established Moxie Strategies in Asbury Park, NJ.
Husch Blackwell Strategies has added FleishmanHillard alum Michael Slatin as a principal in its public affairs group.
Rory Cooper, a veteran Republican operative and policy specialist, has joined Teneo’s Washington office as senior managing director in its strategy & communications practice.
Brian Fallon, who served as national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is signing on next month as Vice President’s Kamala Harris’ campaign communications director.
TikTok is nothing more than a Chinese propaganda tool that poses “a grave threat to America’s national security and, in particular, impressionable children and young adults,” say two Congressmen who want the platform registered as a foreign agent.
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