Enriching America’s enemies with our intelligence.
Via The Atlantic:
Writing in The Atlantic in May, Chris Woods highlighted two aspects of America’s first drone strike, which took place 14 years ago this month, just weeks after September 11.
The first is that the strike missed its target, Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban’s leader in Afghanistan who lived to fight for another dozen years. The second is the strike, conducted by the CIA, set off a still-unresolved quarrel between the agency, the military, and the White House over control of the instrument, the rules that govern its use, and the chain of command in combat.
Much has been written about America’s drone campaigns in places like Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen, where the efforts have successfully targeted terrorists, but the strikes are also thought to have strengthened groups like al-Qaeda and inadvertently killed countless civilians.