CIA drone strikes will get pass in counterterrorism ‘playbook,’ officials say

Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima, and Karen DeYoung
Washington Post
January 20, 2013

The Obama administration is nearing completion of a detailed counterterrorism manual that is designed to establish clear rules for targeted-killing operations but leaves open a major exemption for the CIA’s campaign of drone strikes in Pakistan, U.S. officials said.

The carve-out would allow the CIA to continue pounding al-Qaeda and Taliban targets for a year or more before the agency is forced to comply with more stringent rules spelled out in a classified document that officials have described as a counterterrorism “playbook.”

The document, which is expected to be submitted to President Obama for final approval within weeks, marks the culmination of a year-long effort by the White House to codify its counterterrorism policies and create a guide for lethal operations through Obama’s second term.

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This article was posted: Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 10:14 am

Tags: drones, government corruption, terrorism

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