Targeted killing is now so routine that the Obama administration has spent much of the past year codifying and streamlining the processes that sustain it. This year, the White House scrapped a system in which the Pentagon and the National Security Council had overlapping roles in scrutinizing the names being added to U.S. target lists. Now the system functions like a funnel, starting with input from half a dozen agencies and narrowing through layers of review until proposed revisions are laid on Brennan’s desk, and subsequently presented to the president.
Plan for hunting terrorists signals U.S. intends to keep adding names to kill lists | The Washington Post
"Targeted killing is now so routine..."
The matrix, kill lists, kill funnels, making war permanent, more countries, more murders. We're in a bad place, everybody.
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