I don’t think it’s the secrecy as much as it is the embarrassment. At the previous correspondents’ dinner, he was all jock about it. Got laughs. Has had a good deal of bad press about the program since then. Especially recently, after killing two “white” hostages. Eg...President Obama has chosen to operate his drone war in such unprecedented, absurd and arguably illegal secrecy that even in a rare burst of compelled transparency yesterday, neither he nor his press secretary could actually bring themselves to say the word “drone.”
Over and over again, Obama called the drone strike that killed two al Qaeda hostages a “counterterrorism operation.”
Dan Froomkin
Guess which.The use of drones and cyberattacks mean you can have secret wars now. But secret wars and democracy don’t go together. One has to go.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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