Washington – U.S. President Donald Trump has given the Central Intelligence Agency new authority to conduct drone attacks against suspected militants, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing U.S. officials.
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The move would be a change from the policy of former President Barack Obama’s administration of limiting the CIA’s paramilitary role, the newspaper reported. (http://on.wsj.com/2mlgyS9)
Huh? Unless WSJ has access to classified ROE, conducting drone attacks on suspected militants has been US policy since armed drones were invented.
So the man with the silly red hat who refuses to accept the CIA’s findings on Russian hacking, who fights with John Brenan, who accuses the intelligence community of “wiretapping”, and consistently derides them over their Iraq war failures now decides to give them authority for drone strikes. I guess it makes him feel manly and macho.