{"id":29683,"date":"2017-09-19T10:55:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T18:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=29683"},"modified":"2017-09-19T10:55:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T18:55:27","slug":"president-trump-to-unleash-the-cia-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/19\/president-trump-to-unleash-the-cia-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump To Unleash the CIA Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not only &#8220;the generals&#8221; that President Trump defers to when it comes to war overseas. He&#8217;s also planning to defer to Mike Pompeo and the CIA when it comes to operating killer drones in the &#8220;theaters&#8221; of military operations. Where President Obama toward the end of his term was phasing out the CIA drone program \u2013 partly because of the high civilian casualties \u2013 President Trump is seeking to ramp up the program and loosen the terms of engagement. Count on many more civilian casualties, which creates many more terrorists, which fuels the perceived need for US military action abroad, and so on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sntRObQJshw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not only &#8220;the generals&#8221; that President Trump defers to when it comes to war overseas. He&#8217;s also planning to defer to Mike Pompeo and the CIA when it comes to operating killer drones in the &#8220;theaters&#8221; of military operations. Where President Obama toward the end of his term was phasing out the CIA drone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-29683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29686,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29683\/revisions\/29686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29683"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=29683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}