{"id":30610,"date":"2012-02-01T18:30:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T18:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_editorial_americas_drone_wars\/"},"modified":"2012-02-01T18:30:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T18:30:26","slug":"la_times_editorial_americas_drone_wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30610","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times Editorial) America&#39;s drone wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s public acknowledgment of the CIA&#8217;s secret drone campaign in Pakistan puts new pressure on the administration to defend the policy openly. That&#8217;s a welcome development. The president should now be equally forthcoming about the rationale for the targeted killings of American citizens.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview conducted by Google and YouTube on Monday, Obama defended the use of drones as &#8220;judicious&#8221; and added that &#8220;obviously a lot of these strikes have been in the FATA,&#8221; Pakistan&#8217;s federally administered tribal areas. An administration official told CNN that the president&#8217;s remarks about the secret program were not a &#8220;slip-up.&#8221; Nevertheless, on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney refused to discuss the drone program, withholding comment on &#8220;supposed covert programs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/opinionla\/la-ed-0201-drones-20120201,0,2990431.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s public acknowledgment of the CIA&#8217;s secret drone campaign in Pakistan puts new pressure on the administration to defend the policy openly. That&#8217;s a welcome development. The president should now be equally forthcoming about the rationale for the targeted<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30610\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,143,168,144,114,616,151,667,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-law-legal-issues","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}