Tuesday, 28 April 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Barack Obama who belatedly in 2013 publicly assured a "near certainty" standard to Americans and the world that he would authorize unmanned armed U.S. drones to launch deadly attacks against human targets only when specific individuals had been positively identified to a "near certainty" last week inherently admitted that his promised standard long has been an unacknowledged government lie as the President for the first time confirmed only in the face of irrefutable evidence of CIA accidental drone kills in the course of a so-called "signature strike" resulting in U.S. drone civilian aid worker kills three months earlier in January 2015 in Pakistan of Al Qaeda hostage civilian aid workers American Warren Weinstein and Italian Giovanni lo Porto.
C.I.A. Counterterrorism Center chief Michael D'Andrea aka "the Wolf" aka "Mike" aka "Roger" among his multitude of torture and other atrocities also is singularly personally responsible for an unrevealed (and/or unknown) enormous number of C.I.A. drone mass murders. Interested readers will find more information in the most recently added New York Times article at the last link below.
As is apparent from the earlier New York Times article linked to below even at the time of his 2013 drone kill announcement President Obama in assuring that so-called "signature strikes" which the CIA claims are based on "patterns of behavior rather than intelligence about specific people" would continue through 2014 obviously was aware that this was at direct odds with the standard the he at the same time was articulating to the American people and effectively the world. In any case on the day of last week's Obama announcement of the civilian aid worker drone kills in January 2015 "several government officials" took the rare opportunity given no other choice to disingenuously exploit the trademark Obama administration "appearance" of candor and transparency by making the self-evident acknowledgement that Obama's 2013 assurance of ending such "signature strikes" by 2014 had "not been enforced".
Meanwhile the CIA gave its own assurance that any drone strike kill even the not really terminated as promised "signature strikes" such as that announced by Obama last week where specific individuals admittedly were not identified curiously somehow also was based on a "near certainty" standard while at the same time officials implied that the CIA might more accurately be undertaking such drone strike kills actually based on their seemingly looser assessment made with "high confidence" a not altogether reassuring threshold especially as historically applied by the CIA before setting in motion operations from which typically there is no point of return.
The total number of all innocents killed by all U.S. drone strikes ever worldwide is believed to be both largely unknown to the United States and in any case whatever information is available officially is a closely deeply guarded secret despite the alleged "transparency" (when convenient or otherwise concerning the undeniable) of the Obama administration but presumably numbers at least in the thousands if not more of innocent civilian drone kills and massacres apart from unreported kills from "friendly fire" as it were.
In any case for interested readers the proliferation of drone exports recently approved by the Obama administration reportedly under armament industry pressure such as that of Predator manufacturer General Atomics given increasing foreign competition in the expanding drone export market as well as the recent CIA reorganization including the alleged repositioning of the longtime CIA Counter-Terrorism Center chief "the Wolf" aka "Mike" known as "Roger" or vice versa long directly responsible for authorizing great numbers of his favored CIA "signature strikes" as well as his responsibility for the implementation of CIA torture practices among other possibly tarnishing job responsibilities on his curriculum vitae making his future placement potentially problematic have been the subject of earlier posts here.
Readers interested in more information on the above can go to the first link below including a video of last week's President Obama aid worker drone strike kill confession. The below first link in addition to reporting Pakistan's objection to these U.S. drone strike kills in Pakistan also includes a table of over 400 known U.S. unauthorized drone strikes since 2004 in Pakistan actually showing a sharp spike in 2015 Pakistan drone strikes including continuing "signature strikes" to all of which Pakistan long has objected including with the filing of previously reported lawsuits against the United States.
[UPDATE] For readers interested in more information about U.S. drone strike killings of innocent civilians from the perspective of those on the ground along with estimated numbers of innocent civilians killed in Pakistan tribal regions alone by U.S. drone strike killings can go to the second link below to the Foreign Policy online magazine article "A Drone Killed My Friend, Warren Weinstein" which also includes information on the deadly aftermath for polio and other vaccine health aid workers trying to administer vaccines in Pakistan who now in addition to existing suspicions further are thought to be spies since the CIA's failed attempt to obtain DNA samples from the family of Osama bin Laden at his Abbottabad, Pakistan compound in a fake "polio vaccine drive" program devised and supported by the CIA.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/world/asia/fatal-blunder-was-apparent-in-aftermath-of-drone-strike-in-pakistan.html
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/30/a-drone-killed-my-friend-warren-weinstein/?utm_content=buffer841b4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/us/politics/deep-support-in-washington-for-cias-drone-missions.html
Copyright 2015 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
C.I.A. Counterterrorism Center chief Michael D'Andrea aka "the Wolf" aka "Mike" aka "Roger" among his multitude of torture and other atrocities also is singularly personally responsible for an unrevealed (and/or unknown) enormous number of C.I.A. drone mass murders. Interested readers will find more information in the most recently added New York Times article at the last link below.
As is apparent from the earlier New York Times article linked to below even at the time of his 2013 drone kill announcement President Obama in assuring that so-called "signature strikes" which the CIA claims are based on "patterns of behavior rather than intelligence about specific people" would continue through 2014 obviously was aware that this was at direct odds with the standard the he at the same time was articulating to the American people and effectively the world. In any case on the day of last week's Obama announcement of the civilian aid worker drone kills in January 2015 "several government officials" took the rare opportunity given no other choice to disingenuously exploit the trademark Obama administration "appearance" of candor and transparency by making the self-evident acknowledgement that Obama's 2013 assurance of ending such "signature strikes" by 2014 had "not been enforced".
Meanwhile the CIA gave its own assurance that any drone strike kill even the not really terminated as promised "signature strikes" such as that announced by Obama last week where specific individuals admittedly were not identified curiously somehow also was based on a "near certainty" standard while at the same time officials implied that the CIA might more accurately be undertaking such drone strike kills actually based on their seemingly looser assessment made with "high confidence" a not altogether reassuring threshold especially as historically applied by the CIA before setting in motion operations from which typically there is no point of return.
The total number of all innocents killed by all U.S. drone strikes ever worldwide is believed to be both largely unknown to the United States and in any case whatever information is available officially is a closely deeply guarded secret despite the alleged "transparency" (when convenient or otherwise concerning the undeniable) of the Obama administration but presumably numbers at least in the thousands if not more of innocent civilian drone kills and massacres apart from unreported kills from "friendly fire" as it were.
In any case for interested readers the proliferation of drone exports recently approved by the Obama administration reportedly under armament industry pressure such as that of Predator manufacturer General Atomics given increasing foreign competition in the expanding drone export market as well as the recent CIA reorganization including the alleged repositioning of the longtime CIA Counter-Terrorism Center chief "the Wolf" aka "Mike" known as "Roger" or vice versa long directly responsible for authorizing great numbers of his favored CIA "signature strikes" as well as his responsibility for the implementation of CIA torture practices among other possibly tarnishing job responsibilities on his curriculum vitae making his future placement potentially problematic have been the subject of earlier posts here.
Readers interested in more information on the above can go to the first link below including a video of last week's President Obama aid worker drone strike kill confession. The below first link in addition to reporting Pakistan's objection to these U.S. drone strike kills in Pakistan also includes a table of over 400 known U.S. unauthorized drone strikes since 2004 in Pakistan actually showing a sharp spike in 2015 Pakistan drone strikes including continuing "signature strikes" to all of which Pakistan long has objected including with the filing of previously reported lawsuits against the United States.
[UPDATE] For readers interested in more information about U.S. drone strike killings of innocent civilians from the perspective of those on the ground along with estimated numbers of innocent civilians killed in Pakistan tribal regions alone by U.S. drone strike killings can go to the second link below to the Foreign Policy online magazine article "A Drone Killed My Friend, Warren Weinstein" which also includes information on the deadly aftermath for polio and other vaccine health aid workers trying to administer vaccines in Pakistan who now in addition to existing suspicions further are thought to be spies since the CIA's failed attempt to obtain DNA samples from the family of Osama bin Laden at his Abbottabad, Pakistan compound in a fake "polio vaccine drive" program devised and supported by the CIA.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/world/asia/fatal-blunder-was-apparent-in-aftermath-of-drone-strike-in-pakistan.html
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/30/a-drone-killed-my-friend-warren-weinstein/?utm_content=buffer841b4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/us/politics/deep-support-in-washington-for-cias-drone-missions.html
Copyright 2015 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
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