Trump Gave CIA Power to Launch Drone Strikes | WSJ

President Donald Trump has given the Central Intelligence Agency secret new authority to conduct drone strikes against suspected terrorists, U.S. officials said, changing the Obama administration’s policy of limiting the spy agency’s paramilitary role and reopening a turf war between the agency and the Pentagon.

Shooting down drone okay because it invaded man’s privacy – judge | RT USA

A Kentucky man who shot down a drone that had been flying over his property was cleared of all charges against him because a judge ruled that the unmanned aerial vehicle had violated his privacy.

A Massive National Security Leak Just Blew the Lid off Obama's Drone War | Mother Jones

the Intercept published a major package of stories that reveals the inner workings of the US military's drone program, including how and why people are targeted for assassination on the amorphous battlefields of Yemen, Somalia, and other countries. "The Drone Papers," according to the Intercept, is based on a trove of a classified documents leaked by a whistleblower who grew concerned by the government's methods of targeting individuals for lethal action. "This outrageous explosion of watchlisting—of monitoring people and racking and stacking them on lists, assigning them numbers, assigning them 'baseball cards,' assigning them death sentences without notice, on a worldwide battlefield—it was, from the very first instance, wrong," the source said.

Is Drone Warfare Fraying at the Edges? | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

The U.S. drone war across much of the Greater Middle East and parts of Africa is in crisis and not because civilians are dying or the target list for that war or the right to wage it just about anywhere on the planet are in question in Washington. Something far more basic is at stake: drone pilots are quitting in record numbers.

Family Of Innocent U.S. Drone Victims Compensated With 101 Kalashnikovs | Huffington Post

A little more than a week after a U.S. drone strike killed innocent civilians from a wedding convoy in Yemen, more eyebrow-raising details have emerged surrounding the compensation practices for the victims' relatives.