Fireside: Escalating Drone War Unnoticed

Uploaded on Nov 4, 2011

A Wall Street Journal article titled, "US Tightens Drone Rules" says the CIA has made a series of secret concessions in its drone campaign, after military and diplomatic officials complained that large strikes were damaging the fragile US relationship with Pakistan. But one of the biggest problems is the CIA doesn't even publicly acknowledge its drone strikes. And for the most part, very few in the US notice because records of strikes are kept secret by the government. While the WSJ reports that during the summer it was decided that there should be new rules for drone strikes and that they should be launched more selectively. Where's the proof of any of those changes?