Obama Says Drones Are on a "Very Tight Leash"

| Tue Jan. 31, 2012 10:10 AM GMT





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Obama's "tight leash" appraisal doesn't provide much comfort, either: The scant congressional oversight of the drone wars certainly isn't helped by the fact that the Joint Special Operations Command and the CIA maintain their own, separate "kill lists." And as my colleague Adam Serwer notes, that "list of active terrorists" that the president likes to talk about has profound legal implications for foreign nationals and American citizens alike:


So the problem isn't the fear that the Obama administration is ordering these drone strikes "willy-nilly"; it's the very plausible belief that the current ever-expanding system of precision strikes is inherently flawed.
