The NSA Has A Much Bigger Role In Drone Strikes Than We've Realized

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The National Security Agency has a much deeper role in the CIA's drone program in Pakistan, with new documents leaked by Edward Snowden showing a much more sophisticated and efficient targeted killing program than previously known, The Washington Post reports.

The controversial CIA program of using drones to target terror suspects in lieu of capture began in 2004 as the agency came under fire for their detention and interrogations of terror suspects. As Rolling Stone put it, they got out of the prison business and "into the assassination business."

The NSA has offered a big helping hand with a secret unit called Counter-Terrorism Mission Aligned Cell, or CT MAC, providing intercepts inside Pakistan of emails, phone calls, and "targeted network penetrations" — aka hacking.



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