“Popular discontent with the drone program has built slowly as drone missions grew from 50 strikes under President George W. Bush to more than 400 under President Obama, and it dawned on Americans that remote-controlled killing had become a permanent fixture of national policy.” – The New York Times, Editorial Board, April 7, 2013
“As the President of the United States gave his outraged speech on children’s deaths, he simultaneously moved to shield from transparency the targeted drone assassination program he has built up and nurtured — which has, during his time in office, killed more noncombatants than have all U.S. mass shootings during the same period. This fact, rarely brought up in the gun debate, provides some needed context for media coverage of all the political outrage.” – David Freddoso, The Examiner. April 18, 2013.
