Steve Chapman on the Drone War’s Secrets and Lies

Barack Obama
promised to install his administration in a glass house lit up like
the Super Bowl, with everything visible to the citizenry he serves.
So you will not be surprised to learn that Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper wants nothing more than to keep the
public well informed. The administration, he said in a recent
letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee, “is exploring ways in
which it can provide the American people more information about the
United States’ use of force outside areas of active
hostilities.”

That’s what he said. Then he laughed so hard he fell off his
chair.

The president says he has kept his campaign promise to be more
open: “This is the most transparent administration in history.” But
when it comes to the subject of blowing people up with unmanned
aerial vehicles, the windows are painted over and boarded up,
writes Steve Chapman. You can look all you want; you just can’t
see.

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