President Trump reportedly asked a CIA official why the agency didn’t kill a terrorist target’s family during a drone strike.
The Washington Post reported Thursday that, after watching a recorded video of a drone strike in Syria in which officials waited until the target was outside of his family’s home, Trump asked, “Why did you wait?”
The agency’s head of drone operations explained to an “unimpressed” Trump there are techniques to limit the number of civilian casualties.
Trump called for the CIA to start arming its drones in Syria and reportedly asked for it to be started in days.
“If you can do it in 10 days, get it done,” Trump said in a meeting, according to two former officials.
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Trump asked CIA official why drone strike didn’t also kill target’s family: report https://t.co/ofK24nAULj pic.twitter.com/SHZLvDNIRS
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