By Ammo.com

President Barack Obama has received much credit for drawing down American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, but less attention has been paid to his administration’s embrace of armed drones.
His expansion of covert drone strikes goes far beyond that of former President George W. Bush, and has blurred the line between warfare and assassination.
The classified processes used by the White House for approving these remote killings in foreign countries – countries which the U.S. is not officially at war with – has people questioning not only the Obama administration’s tactics, but also the collateral damage of civilian casualties left in its wake.

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Posted on July 8, 2016

By Nadia Prupis/Common Dreams

In anticipation of an impending White House announcement on civilian deaths from drone strikes, international human rights group Reprieve has released a report which finds that there is significant evidence the U.S. government is lying about the human toll of the aerial bombing campaign.
President Barack Obama is expected to announce as early as Friday that since 2009, U.S. military and CIA airstrikes have inadvertently killed only about 100 people in nations that are not officially recognized as battlefields, such as Libya, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. The numbers for active war zones like Iraq and Afghanistan, on the other hand, will not be included.
But according to Reprieve’s report, Opaque Transparency, every previous statement made by the Obama administration on the civilian casualties from drone strikes has been misleading at best, with some being outright false.

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Posted on July 1, 2016