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Trump Just Gave Himself More Power to Kill in Secret

He reversed an Obama-era order requiring the annual publication of drone strikes undertaken by the United States.
Source: Reuters via U.S. Air Force

After seven years spent presiding over many hundreds of secretive, extrajudicial CIA killings, President Barack Obama signed intended to increase transparency and reduce the “tragic” deaths of civilians. The order required the release each May 1 of the number of drone strikes undertaken by the United States “against

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