US Officials Attack Leaked Report on Civilians Drone Deaths

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Published on Friday, July 26, 2013 by Bureau of Investigative Journalism
US Officials Attack Leaked Report on Civilians Drone Deaths
Unnamed government officials call report 'far from authoritative'
by Chris Woods


Pakistan officially denied that 81 civilians including children died in this 2006 CIA drone strike – but a leaked document says otherwise. (Photo: Getty Images).

US officials are claiming that an internal Pakistani assessment of civilian deaths from US drone strikes – obtained and published in full by the Bureau – is ‘far from authoritative.’

The secret document was obtained by the Bureau from three independent sources. It provides details of more than 70 CIA drone strikes between 2006 and 2009, and was compiled by civilian officials throughout Pakistan’s tribal areas.

They noted that at least 147 of 746 people listed as killed in CIA drone strikes between 2006 and 2009 were said to be civilians. That number could be as high as 220 civilian dead, the leaked report indicates.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/26-0

That's only 3 years in only one country. I believe I read that Obama has stepped up drone killings.

How lawless can we be and still claim to be "a nation of laws" (as Obama termed it when asked why he was pursuing Snowden),

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1. Kind of goes against the

spirit of our founding as a nation.

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2. Not only the spirit. IMO, this violates so many provisions of he Bill of Rights, it isn't funny.

And most of the rest of the Bill is down the tubes, thanks to treatment of journalists and whistleblowers.