by Spencer Ackerman | Mar 7, 2013 | Monitor
What to do when you run low on enemy targets? One option is to declare victory. Another, under discussion by Obama, is to expand the definition of the enemy.
by Spencer Ackerman | Mar 5, 2013 | Monitor
The United Nations drone investigator going to have to deal with the CIA for his ongoing inquiry. That’s not stopping him from criticizing the agency harshly.
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 21, 2013 | Monitor
The number of people killed in U.S. drone strikes is officially a state secret that you can’t know. Sen. Lindsey Graham just gave what he says is the death toll to a South Carolina Rotary club.
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 14, 2013 | Monitor
Here’s an indicator of how the U.S. military considers northern and eastern Africa the next major battlefield of the ongoing war on terrorism. “Countering violent extremist groups” will be the “first priority” of the U.S. Africa Command,...
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 8, 2013 | Monitor
The CIA’s top ally in the Senate thinks the agency is truthful about killing few civilians with drones. But she says “it’s a whole new situation” if the CIA is lying.