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August 14, 2011

The CIA and Drone Strikes

New York Times, New York Times

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Perfection is rare in life; in war, rarer still. Yet the Central Intelligence Agency says it has a yearlong perfect record of no civilian deaths from its campaign of drone strikes in Pakistan. We find that hard to believe.

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TAGGED: Drones, Pakistan, CIA

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