Lawmakers are secretly pushing to keep the U.S. drone program under the thumb of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Snuck into the trillion dollar government spending bill is a “classified” provision, introduced by Congress, that blocks President Obama’s bid to transfer control of the drone program into Department of Defense control, Greg Miller writing for the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
The measure would “restrict the use of any funding to transfer unmanned aircraft or the authority to carry out drone strikes from the CIA to the Pentagon,” the Washington Post reports, referencing statements by U.S. officials.
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