{"id":3255,"date":"2014-12-19T07:33:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T12:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2014-12-19T07:33:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T12:33:21","slug":"leaked-internal-cia-document-admits-us-drone-program-counterproductive-obama-did-it-anyway-washingtons-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3255","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Internal CIA Document Admits US Drone Program “Counterproductive” … Obama Did It ANYWAY Washington’s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leaked Internal CIA Document Admits US Drone Program “Counterproductive” … Obama Did It ANYWAY Washington’s Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previously-leaked documents showed that\u00a0the CIA warned Obama that funding rebels doesn\u2019t work \u2026 but Obama decided to fund the Syrian rebels\u00a0anyway<\/em><\/a>\u00a0for cynical political gain.<\/p>\n

Top CIA officers say that\u00a0drone strikes<\/em>\u00a0increase terrorism<\/a>\u00a0(and\u00a0see this<\/a>). Indeed, virtually all aspects of the American \u201cwar on terror\u201d strategy\u00a0creates more terrorists and weakens our national security<\/a>. Andsee this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, a leaked internal CIA memo shows that the Agency told Obama that drone strikes might be counter-productive.\u00a0 The Sydney Morning Herald\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0today:<\/p>\n

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According to a leaked document by the CIA\u2019s Directorate of Intelligence, \u201chigh value targeting\u201d (HVT) involving air strikes and special forces operations against insurgent leaders can be effective, but can also have\u00a0negative effects including increasing violence and greater popular support for extremist groups<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The leaked document is classified secret and \u201cNoForn\u201d (meaning not to be distributed to non-US nationals) and reviews attacks by the United States and other countries engaged in counter-insurgency operations over the past 50\u00a0years.<\/p>\n

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Leaked Internal CIA Document Admits US Drone Program “Counterproductive” … Obama Did It ANYWAY Washington’s Blog. Previously-leaked documents showed that\u00a0the CIA warned Obama that funding rebels doesn\u2019t work \u2026 but Obama decided to fund the Syrian rebels\u00a0anyway\u00a0for cynical political gain. Top CIA officers say that\u00a0drone strikes\u00a0increase terrorism\u00a0(and\u00a0see this). Indeed, virtually all aspects of the American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[135,1007,584,864],"class_list":["post-3255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-cia","tag-drones","tag-obama","tag-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3256,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions\/3256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}