now we have five thousand of these drawings in the air twelve thousand on the ground if we take the growth of directory out this one air force lieutenant general put it we're reaching into the tens of thousands one of the reasons for the development of this technology has been to avoid disturbing the peace of mind of the american people no casualties invisibility nice and precisely because it's accurate to give this illusion that is also going to target the right people but it doesn't it's just surgical precision the ability with laser like focus to eliminate the cancerous tumor called an al qaeda terrorist while limiting damage to the tissue around it that makes this kind of terrorism tool so essential as of march two thousand and eleven u s air force had forty eight predator and reaper combat air patrols both in iraq and afghanistan that compares with only eighteen in two thousand and seven as of march two thousand and eleven the air force was training more pilots for these on manned aircraft sixty which are in great engaging in drone warfare here in the united states according to a u s air force report there i would say over operations and that is in pakistan but the use of this weapon has inflamed the population posing a serious problem for us so as two thousand until two thousand and six that have been rather quiet in afghanistan things have been quiet but the us had failed to establish any kind of power working system made to him and the u so people over there they needed some kind of basic justice basic administration so there was an absence of any kind of government so they sort of seeking alternatives and the alternative was being provided by the taliban who were who were there who had a applications you can say system of justice they were able to deliver in short period of time and secondly it was also available to everyone as opposed to the central government who's just says was mostly available for to those who have means drone attacks and still they were not nearly as frequent as they have been under but obama because as soon as bush was gone suddenly the number of strikes in fact that  lot more people there who should be our friends than there are people who are our enemies but if you can imagine having these things flying overhead all day i think you get a little sense of what my mother had in world war two  she had doodlebugs flying over and she speaks to me today and she's eighty four years old she still tells me of the terror of those things and i'm afraid that's what we're doing and reservist on right now there is of course civilians have been accidentally killed or worse but the next only or worse killed in the strikes is exceedingly rare but it has happened when it does it pains us and we regret it and it was as unreliable as it is it was still better than what they have been doing since then because now what they do is that they have drones which just how were over the region for some time they used something more out of life teligent stock let's say they see somebody they have they have bombed a compound there the i should use the word compound because that is what they call homes respond who might be english and then they kill people and then they bomb them i think the most important thing for anyone to make a decision whether it be you and me or whether it be president obama is that they know the truth and th s is the seriousness the extraordinary care that president obama and those of us in his national security team bring to this weightiest of questions whether to pursue lethal force against a terrorist plot to attack  country when that person is a us citizen we ask ourselves additional questions attorney general holder has already described the legal authorities that clearly allow us to use lethal force against an american citizen who is a senior operational leader of al qaeda he has discussed the thorough and careful review including all relevant constitutional considerations that has to be undertaken by the u s government when determining whether the individual  threat of violent attack against the united states yes we obama who has been targeting terrorists in pakistan yemen and somalia even killing u s citizens has just authorized an expansion of bombing raids wherever there is suspicious behavior at sites known to be controlled by a terrorist group these are illegal the drone attacks have been illegal all along the assassination assassinations of anyone have been illegal because under the geneva conventions in the united states is a party to the geneva conventions targeted or political assassinations sometimes called extra judicial executions constitute willful killing and willful killing is considered to be a grave breach of the geneva conventions grave breaches of the geneva conventions can be punished as work crimes under the u s war crimes act now just days after the september eleventh attacks congress authorized the use of force against groups in countries that had supported terrorist attacks against the united states has tents that had supported terrorist attacks  what was called the authorization for the use of military force bush had asked for more authority he wanted an open ended authority to deter and pre preempt any future acts of terrorism or aggression against the united states but congress turned him down and in the military appropriations act of two thousand and twelve congress made very clear that nothing is it nothing in this section is intended to expand the authority of the president or the scope of the authorization of military force that congress had given to bush after nine eleven now the cia's drone campaign has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to rescue victims or who were attending funerals and there's a new report just released by the bureau of investigative journal that says that since obama took office three years ago as many as five hundred and thirty five civilians have been killed more than sixty of them children  at least fifty civilians were killed in follow up strikes when they had gone to help victims more than twenty civilians have also been attacked in deliberate strikes on funerals and mourners these are all violations of the geneva conventions current administration and yet terrorism strikes terror you know the shock and on the terrorism that they talk about if you lived in a community where you were subject to the united states the will of the act to had to get in there then you are you are in terror all the time of the what's going to happen next are my going to be killed by one of these drones a lot of collateral damage as has gone on from that so i would  strongly advise people not to be psychologically overwhelmed by the drones and believe that they're all powerful all a mission and out of some science fiction  program that your child is watching that it's not true they need operatives on the ground and they antagonize populations on the ground they cannot win the war or in pakistan or afghanistan because the war is unpopular with the people in those countries they conflict a lot of blood they can create a lot of headlines they can not show a lot of wins from a public relations standpoint but they postponed the day of reckoning and i'm afraid and make it harder to realize a resolution because they inflame so many millions of people in these countries so what we're seeing is a very very indiscriminate persis read the people who have been killed  they were just wrong the second one was far more personal for me and frankly has turned this from the legal human rights issue into something that i see very personally one of the children who came to the meeting we had in islam attached g p s tracking to that car and then announce to the paymaster's terrorists and it's just not true and what we're seeing here unfortunately is what happens when you hand out money in a country where there isn't much money people in that part of pakistan would sell their own parents for the sort of money the cia's pain and unfortunately the cia and even up to this is genuine intelligence and the consequences a tragic and then they say on the one hand since two thousand and six there have been over two thousand so called leaders so called operatives of the taliban and quote allied extremist groups killed of taliban and al qaeda leaders killed in these areas and this is in the period of the last six years has been totally and significant it's not a thousand but three thousand the so called that's such a small number of so called you one how how difficult is this for them to be replaced and at the not one from the air you have to have a constituency you have to have a client you have to have a partner of a mass base on the ground the the truth is that the  a way to keep what our government is doing in secret from the american people not a secret from people in pakistan there are endless rallies against the drones  american blood and was snowing and think it's like a boomerang that will just come and and hit us hard the whole thing is secret and this is what shocking a cia is waging a war that it they're out there somewhere sasha and malia are huge fans but boys don't get any ideas i have two words for you predator drone