Obama Administration’s Poor Progress Reforming US Drone Policy

The Obama administration received poor grades — including three F’s — in a new report card released evaluating their progress made in implementing nonpartisan recommendations to reform U.S. drone policy. The report released by the nonpartisan Stimson Center titled Grading Progress on U.S. Drone Policy: Report Card on The Recommendations of The Stimson Task Force on U.S. Drone Policy, comes a year and a half after The Stimson Task Force on U.S. Drone Policy recommended eight steps to make America’s drone policy more transparent, accountable, and consistent with long-term U.S. national security interests. Stimson Senior Associate and report author Rachel Stohl discusses the report and its findings: 

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