> President Obama is reportedly considering moving control of the drone > program from the Central Intelligence Agency to the Defense Department, > as questions about the program’s legality continue to be asked. But this > shift would do nothing to confer legitimacy to the drone strikes. The > legitimacy problem comes from the secrecy itself — not which entity > secretly does the killing. Secrecy has been used to hide presidential > overreach — as the Cambodia example shows.
then why were some people on the left pushing so hard to shift control of the drones from the CIA to the Pentagon? -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
