If a drone ever kills a U.S. government official on American soil, the news will call it unprecedented. But it will not be unprecedented. We have been precedenting it in other countries for 20 years now
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/18/hegseth-rubio-drone-targeting-iran/
Here's me on the drone wars, ten years ago. (When Barack Obama was still the president.)
https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2016/09/the-real-price-of-our-secret-wars/
I watched "citizenfour" and the BIG reveal at the end, teh last line of that film was, there were, 1 million people on the Obama kill/capture list (and at the time we were sooooo hot for UAV Hellfire drone strikes, that's all they did for 8 years in Iraq and Afghanistan). Can you imagine 1M people on a list, where you attempt to get any kinds of human intelligence, signals intelligence, anything, social graph, doctors records, cell phone IMEI numbers. All just to add to a queue.
Jason Lefkowitz
Eric Likness