What’s in it for Obama?
Stephen Holmes: The Drone Presidency, 18 July 2013
The CIA, a Secret Army and a War at the Ends of the Earth
by Mark Mazzetti.
Penguin, 381 pp., £22.50, April 2013,978 1 59420 480 7 Show More
by Mark Mazzetti.
Penguin, 381 pp., £22.50, April 2013,
“... it was they were killing’. Before acknowledging that ‘every drone strike is an execution,’ Richard Blee, the former head of the CIA’s bin Laden-hunting unit, told Mazzetti that the CIA lowered the bar for identifying targets because American spies no longer ‘wanted to know who we were killing before anyone pulled the trigger’. They no longer ... ”