"Robert Naiman" <[email protected]> wrote: 

> The likely status quo path is closed or no hearings, and maybe some 
> kind of FISA-like secret court. The question on the table is whether a 
> little activism could change the likely status quo path. 

Not likely, see http://www.ga-asi.com, the website of a privately held company 
based in California. 

> ... It is likely that 
> if there is a public hearing on the drone strikes, the dispute about 
> low-balling civilian casualties will surface, and if this gets play in 
> the press it will drive down public and media support for the status 
> quo policy. And that could save the lives of innocent people who would 
> continue to be killed under the status quo policy, so it's worth 
> fighting for. ... 

I think the euphemism is "collateral damage". 


-- 
Ron 

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