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Drones cause ‘growing hatred of America,’ bipartisan Senate panel told
www.washingtonpost.com-April 24, 2013
A bipartisan panel of senators held a spirited and unusually public debate Tuesday afternoon about the legality and unintended consequences of America’s targeted killings overseas, a forum convened amid growing calls for stronger oversight of the government’s use of armed drones outside conventional battlefields.
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Drone base in Niger gives U.S. a strategic foothold in West Africa
www.washingtonpost.com-March 22, 2013
The newest outpost in the U.S. government’s empire of drone bases sits behind a razor-wire-topped wall outside this West African capital, blasted by 110-degree heat and the occasional sandstorm blowing from the Sahara.
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Secret report raises alarms on intelligence blind spots because of AQ focus
www.washingtonpost.com-March 21, 2013
A panel of White House advisers warned President Obama in a secret report that U.S. spy agencies were paying inadequate attention to China, the Middle East and other national security flash points because they had become too focused on military operations and drone strikes, U.S. officials said.
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U.S. to Shift Drone Command
www.online.wsj.com-March 21, 2013
The White House is working to shift control of the Central Intelligence Agency's lethal drone program to the military, U.S. officials say, a move that redefines the widely contested campaign that targets suspected terrorists.
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Top general urges caution on Syria options, rebels
www.reuters.com-March 19, 2013
The United States has a less clear understanding of Syria's opposition than it did last year, the top U.S. military officer said on Monday, in comments likely to disappoint rebels hoping that America might be inching toward a decision to arm them.
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Nominee to Lead C.I.A. Clears Hurdle After Release of Drone Data
www.nytimes.com-March 06, 2013
The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday voted 12 to 3 to confirm John O. Brennan as director of the Central Intelligence Agency after the White House agreed to provide more information on the legal basis for targeted killings of Americans abroad who are believed to pose a terrorist threat.
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U.S. intelligence report on Afghanistan sees stalemate
www.la.times.com-January 12, 2012
The U.S. intelligence community says in a secret new assessment that the war in Afghanistan is mired in stalemate, and warns that security gains from an increase in American troops have been undercut by pervasive corruption, incompetent governance and Taliban fighters operating from neighboring Pakistan, according to U.S. officials.
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U.S. Intelligence Warned Of Strife After Iraq Pullout
www.reuters.com-December 22, 2011
U.S. intelligence agencies warned that security gains in Iraq could degenerate into sectarian violence after a troop pullout that some officials say left the United States with little leverage in a country it occupied for nearly nine years.
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More Than Luck
www.nationaljournal.com-October 29, 2011
In a string of successful operations this year, U.S. counterterrorism forces have drawn a bead on the top tier of the terrorist hierarchy. They killed Qaida chief Osama bin Laden last May, and then Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, two top leaders in al-Qaida’s dangerous franchise in Yemen. Ten years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, U.S. officials seem to be accurately “connecting the dots” from terrorism plots back to the masterminds who hatched them. National Journal Senior Correspondent James Kitfield spoke recently with David Shedd, an intelligence veteran who is now deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, about what the recent successes say about post-9/11 intelligence reforms. Edited excerpts from the interview follow.
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Strike on Aulaqi demonstrates collaboration between CIA and military
www.washingtonpost.com-October 01, 2011
Traveling from secret bases on opposite sides of Yemen, armed drones from the CIA and the military’s Joint Special Operations Command converged above Anwar al-Aulaqi’s position in northern Yemen early Friday and unleashed a flurry of missiles.
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