During Monday's Presidential debate, moderator Bob Schieffer asked just one question about U.S. drone-strikes, despite the fact that the controversial drone program is now one of the cornerstones of the country's counter-terrorism policy. Washington Post intelligence reporter Greg Miller tells us about his investigation of a next-generation targeting list called the “disposition matrix.” He's written about it in the Washington Post's special report, the Permanent War.
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Comments [3]
sniffed the emperor
John, we next will tele port to the past and kill the parents before the birth of these vermin.
I am all for the killing of these individuals, less threat to our people.
Next-generation targeting.
About as leaden and inappropriate a term as the Bush administration calling their operation a Crusade.
Let's target the next generation. What? At the schoolbus-stop?
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My outrage is rare. Here it is based on published numbers of civilian deaths.
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