{"id":35237,"date":"2012-10-22T16:30:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_post_cia_seeks_to_expand_drone_fleet_officials_say\/"},"modified":"2012-10-22T16:30:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:30:37","slug":"washington_post_cia_seeks_to_expand_drone_fleet_officials_say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35237","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) CIA seeks to expand drone fleet, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CIA is urging the White House to approve a significant expansion of the agency\u2019s fleet of armed drones, a move that would extend the spy service\u2019s decade-long transformation into a paramilitary force, U.S. officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal by CIA Director David H. Petraeus would bolster the agency\u2019s ability to sustain its campaigns of lethal strikes in Pakistan and Yemen and enable it, if directed, to shift aircraft to emerging al-Qaeda threats in North Africa or other trouble spots, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>If approved, the CIA could add as many as 10 drones, the officials said, to an inventory that has ranged between 30 and 35 over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/cia-seeks-to-expand-drone-fleet-officials-say\/2012\/10\/18\/01149a8c-1949-11e2-bd10-5ff056538b7c_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CIA is urging the White House to approve a significant expansion of the agency\u2019s fleet of armed drones, a move that would extend the spy service\u2019s decade-long transformation into a paramilitary force, U.S. officials said. The proposal by CIA<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35237\">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":[39,40,50,209,670,143,149,144,151,95,148,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-budget","category-defense-national-security-military","category-economy","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-science-technology","category-terrorism","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35237","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=35237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}