If you have been listening carefully, the Obama regime is moving very quickly to try to whitewash mistakes surrounding the drone strike death of American hostage Warren Weinstein and Italian hostage Giovanni LoPorto.
They didn’t want to tell the press last week that the CIA had been behind the strike, reason being that it would reveal that they hadn’t followed normal rules trying to verify who was there, and whether the alleged targets represented an “imminent danger” to the U.S.
Via Fox News:
President Obama secretly granted the Central Intelligence Agency more flexibility to conduct drone strikes targeting terror suspects in Pakistan than anywhere else in the world after approving more restrictive rules in 2013.
The Wall Street Journal, citing current and former U.S. officials, first reported that Obama approved a waiver exempting the CIA from proving that militants targeted in Pakistan posed an imminent threat to the U.S. According to the paper, under that standard, the agency might have been prevented from carrying out a Jan. 15 strike that killed an American and an Italian who were held hostage by Al Qaeda-linked militants.
A military intelligence source confirmed to Fox News that there are indeed looser rules in effect for CIA strikes in Pakistan. If the exemption had not been in place, the CIA would have been required to gather more information about the target, and may have delayed or put off the January strike altogether.