I assume this decision was made under the assumption that if we aren’t told what our government is doing, we’ll stop complaining about it.
(Reuters) – With debate intensifying in the United States over the use of drone aircraft, the U.S. military said on Sunday that it had removed data about air strikes carried out by unmanned planes in Afghanistan from its monthly air power summaries.
U.S. Central Command, which oversees the Afghanistan war, said in a statement the data had been removed because it was “disproportionately focused” on the use of weapons by the remotely piloted aircraft as it was published only when strikes were carried out – which happened during only 3 percent of sorties. Most missions were for reconnaissance, it said.
Once the Rubicon had been crossed, it was reported Caesar never looked back. Or as a verse from a popular Pink Floyd song says “it’s just another brick in the wall.”