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February 8, 2013

U.S. Media Complicit in Obama's Drone Doctrine

Neil Macdonald, CBC News

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None of this makes Obama different from any previous president. It just demonstrates his ability to keep the nation’s media on board, and mete out punishment when they publish the wrong sorts of secrets.

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TAGGED: Drones, Barack Obama, United States

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