Obama’s Drone Leaks: New Imminence, Old Tactics

The Senate Armed Services Committee did not mention drones a single time during Senator Chuck Hagel's confirmation hearings last week. That oversight, however, says a lot more about the politics surrounding the hearings than it does about the enduring salience of drone technology to U.S. national security policy. The Department of Justice's "white paper" obtained by NBC on Monday affirms that.

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