Air Force erases drone strike data

[green73]

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Quietly and without much notice, the Air Force has reversed its policy of publishing statistics on drone strikes in Afghanistan as the debate about drone warfare hits a fever pitch in Washington. In addition, it has erased previously published drone strike statistics from its website.

Since October, the Air Force had been providing monthly updates on drone strikes -- or in its words "weapons releases from remotely piloted aircraft (RPA)." But today, Air Force Times reporters Brian Everstine and Aaron Mehta discovered something was amiss: The statistics published for February "contained empty space where the box of RPA statistics had previously been." In other words: The drone strike data was gone. But that's not all. The Air Force had also scrubbed drone strike data from earlier monthly reports. In the graphic below, we've provided a before and after of the Air Force reports:

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http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/03/08/air_force_erases_drone_strike_data_amid_criticism

[Brian4Liberty]

The most "transparent" Administration in history. Makes sense when read as newspeak.

[tod evans]

Gee-whiz, I'm surprised..

Can't have those folks on the interwebs compiling data..........Even cooked data.

[HOLLYWOOD]

CIA destroys all their tapes of Torture... US Air Force destroying their incriminating evidence. What happens when you, I, the average Joe, destroys evidence of terrorism, war crimes, weapons of mass destruction against innocent people and outright murder?



Rule of Law... HAH! Again, it's the 'JUST-US system'.

[presence]

http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2013/03/air-force-drone-airstrike-summary-030813/


As scrutiny and debate over the use of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) by the American military increased last month, the Air Force reversed a policy of sharing the number of airstrikes launched from RPAs in Afghanistan and quietly scrubbed those statistics from previous releases kept on their website.

[bolil]

So, looks like Rand filibusted their chops. The Air Force has stopped sharing data regarding drone ordinance deployment, and have removed reports of months past:


The data removal coincided with increased scrutiny on RPA policy caused by President Barack Obama’s nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA. Brennan faced opposition in the Senate over the use of RPAs and his defense of their legality in his role as Obama’s deputy national security adviser.

On Feb. 20, two days before the metadata indicates the scrubbed files were created, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., sent a letter to Brennan saying that he would filibuster the nomination over concerns about using RPA strikes inside the U.S., a threat he carried out for over 12 hours on March 6 (Brennan was confirmed the next day).

Full article:
hxxp://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2013/03/air-force-drone-airstrike-summary-030813/

(I wasn't even aware they were sharing this info to begin with)

[kcchiefs6465]

Front page of Huffpo as well. :D

I think at least, saw a screen shot a little bit ago saying as much.

[kcchiefs6465]

Headline on huffington post is about drones


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Rand Paul made some waves.

[bolil]

Rand Paul made some waves.
thats where I got turned on to it.

[kcchiefs6465]

Transparency..