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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-11 04:38 PM
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CIA’s Push for Drone War Driven by Internal Needs
CIA’s Push for Drone War Driven by Internal Needs

The reason Hayden pushed for a much bigger drone war, it now appears, is that it had already created a whole bureaucracy in the anticipation of such a war.

During 2010, the CIA “drone war” in Pakistan killed as many as 1,000 people a year, compared with the roughly 2,000 a year officially estimated to have been killed by the SOF “night raids” in Afghanistan, according to a report in the September 1 Washington Post.

A CIA official was quoted by the Post as saying that the CIA had become “one hell of a killing machine”, before quickly revising the phrase to “one hell of an operational tool”.

The shift in the CIA mission’s has been reflected in the spectacular growth of its Counter-terrorism Center (CTC) from 300 employees in September 2001 to about 2,000 people today – 10 percent of the agency’s entire workforce, according to the Post report.

http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/09/cias-push-for-drone-war-driven-by-internal-needs/


Cheney, Rumsfeld weren't actually able to resurred the COLD WAR -- but they did put "terorirsm"

on its feet -- very profitably -- $$$$$$$$$$$$


Obama has also been helpful in pushing the DRONE plague -- !!

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