Comment Re:PRIVATE encryption of everything just became... (Score 1) 379
they were providing emotional support to the targeted reb... Terrorist, so they were Enemy Combatants.
what the drone strike system is in reality is a system for Jemen etc governments to order strikes on their dissidents - and USA gets the blame.
really, they're not strikes against people who would pose a threat to anyone in USA, but who are against the central, often dictatorial tribe politics engulfed government in said countries they happen in.
really, there's not any sort of attempts even to do ground apprehension and to bring into trial or do thorough investigation and the intel is based on what the locals say - so what they have in effect created is a system of ordering hits for rival mafia(tribe in local lingo) gangs.
said countries aren't even in state of war, so just double tapping people with missiles is pretty weird for any outsider and not doing anything to help anyone