{"id":439717,"date":"2010-03-17T16:53:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T20:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79544"},"modified":"2010-03-17T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T20:53:10","slug":"speaking-of-drone-strikes-leon-panetta-says-they%e2%80%99re-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/439717","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Drone Strikes, Leon Panetta Says They\u2019re Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/17\/AR2010031702558.html?hpid=topnews\">The Washington Post sits down with the CIA director<\/a>, who has lots of great things to say about how the CIA is disrupting al-Qaeda:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Panetta credited an increasingly aggressive campaign against al-Qaeda and its Taliban allies, including more frequent strikes and better coordination with Pakistan. He called it &#8220;the most aggressive operation that CIA has been involved in in our history.&#8221;<span id=\"more-79544\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those operations are seriously disrupting al-Qaeda,&#8221; Panetta said. &#8220;It&#8217;s pretty clear from all the intelligence we are getting that they are having a very difficult time putting together any kind of command and control, that they are scrambling. And that we really do have them on the run.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Circumstances are such that there&#8217;s practically no independent way of evaluating Panetta&#8217;s claims, and yet you can&#8217;t exactly not report them when he gives them to you. As such, it&#8217;s kind of like saying, &#8220;Senior Official Says His People Are Doing a Great Job at Something Important.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post sits down with the CIA director, who has lots of great things to say about how the CIA is disrupting al-Qaeda: Panetta credited an increasingly aggressive campaign against al-Qaeda and its Taliban allies, including more frequent strikes and better coordination with Pakistan. He called it &#8220;the most aggressive operation that CIA has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}