More Strikes, Less Transparency
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Clearly, Trump is just too modest to want the public to know about his principled non-interventionism:
The Trump administration has revoked part of an Obama-era executive order mandating an annual accounting of how many civilians have died in military and CIA strikes, reducing the potential for public scrutiny of counterterrorism activities overseas.
The White House said in a statement that the change affected one section of President Barack Obama’s 2016 order on civilian casualties, which was part of an effort to provide a clearer picture of the attacks.
The section that was rescinded required an annual public report tallying how many counterterrorism strikes involving drones or manned aircraft occurred outside war zones, as well as estimating how many civilians were killed.
In a message sent to Capitol Hill shortly before the announcement, the State Department said the report was redundant because Congress had subsequently passed legislation requiring the Defense Department to provide a separate, more exhaustive annual report on civilian casualties resulting from military activities.
“This action eliminates superfluous reporting requirements, requirements that do not improve government transparency, but rather distract our intelligence professionals from their primary mission,” the department said in an email.
But the congressionally mandated report covers only military strikes rather than those conducted by the CIA, creating what Larry Lewis, a director at the Center for Naval Analysis and an expert on civilian casualties, called a “transparency gap.”
Meanwhile, another episode of “how can you tell the parody from the parodied?”
…by uhh quickly mentioning it & then using it to pivot to attack his colleague, and defend (the boy who is like a son to him) Michael Tracey….and then making a weird, tortured analogy attacking establishment liberals. You know, just how he treated drones in the obama years. pic.twitter.com/lVNbTTlk88
— Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) March 7, 2019
That Trump is killing even more civilians than even bloodthirsty warmonger Obama using drones & other weapons, shouldn't be surprising since he spent the campaign vowing to do exactly that, a topic which I covered ad nauseum (I don't have any links…you'll just to have trust me) https://t.co/Ss4FZAE9zl
— Glem (I Do *NOT* Support Trump) (@GlemGreenwald) March 7, 2019
To put it in an analogy formula that everyone can understand — Susan Sarandon: Michael Tracey :: PUTIN : Online #resistance whine moms
or if you didn't get that one, how about:
Big Bad Robert Mueller: My Black Husband:: Joy Reid's Hacker: Tony Podesta (remember him lol?)
— Glem (I Do *NOT* Support Trump) (@GlemGreenwald) March 7, 2019