{"id":36950,"date":"2013-01-25T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pbs_newshour_exploring_technology_the_effectiveness_and_consequences_of_dro\/"},"modified":"2013-01-25T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T18:00:08","slug":"pbs_newshour_exploring_technology_the_effectiveness_and_consequences_of_dro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36950","title":{"rendered":"(PBS Newshour) Exploring Technology: the Effectiveness and Consequences of Drone Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NARRATOR: Depending on the situation, the decision to kill comes from an intelligence officer who could be anywhere, a battle commander on the ground, or sometimes the pilot.<\/p>\n<p>JEFFREY BROWN: Since the Obama administration came to power four years ago, the United States has vastly increased the number of drone strikes against suspected terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Just today, Reuters reported that six suspected al-Qaida militants were killed in Yemen. But their use has been highly controversial, on a number of levels.<\/p>\n<p>And we move to that debate now, with Seth Jones, who worked for the commander of U.S. special forces in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2011 and is now a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, and Chris Anders, senior legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/military\/jan-june13\/drones_01-23.html\">Read or watch it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARRATOR: Depending on the situation, the decision to kill comes from an intelligence officer who could be anywhere, a battle commander on the ground, or sometimes the pilot. JEFFREY BROWN: Since the Obama administration came to power four years ago,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36950\">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":[39,40,143,149,168,144,119,114,151,95,148,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-defense-national-security-military","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-science-technology","category-terrorism","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36950","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=36950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}