Obama’s Air Force No Longer Making Drone Strike Records Public

[unhappycamper]

http://vineoflife.net/2013/03/08/obamas-air-force-no-longer-making-drone-strike-records-public/



Obama’s Air Force No Longer Making Drone Strike Records Public
By Lyn Leahz on March 8, 2013

As scrutiny and debate over the use of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) by the American military increased last month, the Air Force reversed a policy of sharing the number of airstrikes launched from RPAs in Afghanistan and quietly scrubbed those statistics from previous releases kept on their website.

Last October, Air Force Central Command started tallying weapons releases from RPAs, broken down into monthly updates. At the time, AFCENT spokeswoman Capt. Kim Bender said the numbers would be put out every month as part of a service effort to “provide more detailed information on RPA ops in Afghanistan.”

The Air Force maintained that policy for the statistics reports for November, December and January. But the February numbers, released March 7, contained empty space where the box of RPA statistics had previously been.

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Those files still contained the RPA data as of Feb. 16, according to archived web pages accessed via Archive.org. Metadata included in the new, RPA-less versions of the reports show the files were all created Feb. 22.



unhappycamper comment: When the report is 'bad', stop the report. How Republican of them....

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Only through secrecy will we find our freedom.

Freedom from life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.