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The Wall Street Journal
161 d ago
Trump Broadens CIA Powers, Allows Deadly Drone Strikes
President Donald Trump has given the Central Intelligence Agency secret new authority to conduct drone strikes against suspected terrorists, U.S. officials said, changing the Obama administration’s policy of limiting the spy agency’s paramilitary role and reopening a turf war between the agency and the Pentagon.
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161 d ago
Trump gives CIA authority to conduct drone strikes: WSJ
President Trump has given the Central Intelligence Agency new authority to conduct drone attacks against suspected militants.
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161 d ago
Trump gives CIA authority to conduct drone strikes
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President Donald Trump has given the Central Intelligence Agency new authority to conduct drone attacks against suspected militants, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing US officials.
The move would be a change from the policy of former President Barack Obama's administration of limiting the CIA's paramilitary role, The Wall Street Journal reported .
The White House, the US Department of Defense and the CIA did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Obama had sought to influence global guidelines for the use of drone strikes as other nations began pursuing their own drone programs.
The United States was the first to use unmanned aircraft fitted with missiles to kill militant suspects in the years after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
Strikes by missile-armed Predator and Reaper drones against oversea targets began under former President George W. Bush and were expanded by Obama.
Critics of the targeted killing program question whether the strikes create more militants than they kill. They cite the spread of jihadist organizations and militant attacks throughout the world as evidence that targeted killings may be exacerbating the problem.
In July, the US government accepted responsibility for inadvertently killing up to 116 civilians in strikes in countries where America is not at war.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
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Fox News
161 d ago
Trump gives CIA power to launch drone strikes
President Donald Trump has given the Central Intelligence Agency secret new authority to conduct drone strikes against suspected terrorists, U.S. officials said, changing the Obama administration’s policy of limiting the spy agency’s paramilitary role and reopening a turf war between the agency and the Pentagon.
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161 d ago
Trump gives CIA authority to conduct drone strikes: WSJ
(Reuters) - President Donald Trump has given the Central Intelligence Agency new authority to conduct drone attacks against suspected militants, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing U.S. officials.
