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About surveillance and can actually fly for days, cover hundreds, thousands of miles and drop bombs in enemy territory. what do you think of that? could that help us in the current situation were dealing with in the middle east? >> okay. first of all, pete is right. drones are not a substitute for strategy but on the other hand the next great military revolution, technological revolution is in unmanned machines. armed drones, now we have the predator and the reaper and theyre doing great work bu...

Button, and a small missile is fired. but some are asking whether years from now well debate drones the way were debating torture. >> the use of these unmanned aerial vehicles that you refer to as drones in the counterterrorism effort has done tremendous work to keep this country safe. >> reporter: the cias clandestine fleet of armed drones has become central to its counterterrorism mission. the secretive nature of the program means no one can tell for sure how many of the estimated 3500 people ...

Receives authorization, pushes a button, and a small missile is fired. but some are asking whether years from now well debate drones the way were debating torture. >> the use of these unmanned aerial vehicles that you refer to as drones in the counterterrorism effort has done tremendous work to keep this country safe. >> reporter: the cias clandestine fleet of armed drones has become central to its counterterrorism mission. the secretive nature of the program means no one can tell for sure how m...

Military casualties. but critics argue its killed thousands of innocent civilians in yemen and pakistan. heres our chief foreign correspondent, richard engel. >> reporter: its become the weapon of choice in the war against islamic terrorists. a u.s. drone flies over a target thousands of miles away. the cia tracks the location, receives authorization, pushes a button, and a small missile is fired. but some are asking whether years from now well debate drones the way were debating torture. >> the...

An estimated 400 under president obama. >> the use of drones is heavily constrained. america does not take strikes when we have the ability to capture individual terrorists. our preference is always to detain, interrogate and prosecute. >> reporter: polls show about 70% of americans support the drone program. why? why is it more acceptable and more popular to kill people than to hold them and torture them? >> antiseptic drone strikes, which is the video image you see from the pentagon, torture i...

That fodder for our enemies, you know. >> heres the question, dan. is it the release of that information that endangers those troops, or was it the practices that endanger them? i mean, what the vice president seems to be saying is we did bad things in dark places, but whats wrong is that we told people about it. >> and we did things in dark places that resulted in us disrupting mass casualties, terror attacks. that part is disputable. all that brennan said is were not sure other things would ha...

Confused, its hard to sort it out. you know, essentially two full divisions out of 14 iraqi army took off like scald ed hares an ran for it. its good were in there with at least intelligence collection assets to see whats going on. >> were also in there as you know with armed drones, patrolling the skies. the orders have not been given to utilize those, i except in the case of self-defense certainly. but when you see that, do you think air strikes could be coming soon? >> well, hard to know. i t...

Going to get all the e-mails in june. we were then notified we wouldnt. so your listeners are smart enough to figure out what that is. >> aaron shock from illinois, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. good to be with you. >> we will certainly stay op on top of this important story. up next, armed drones ready for trouble are patrolling the skies over baghdad right now but theyre there only for one reason. stand by. and a tea party leader is found dead after an exceptionally nasty republica...

The crisis in iraq escalating today with the discovery there of mass graves. amnesty international says its found evidence of mass graves in the city of tikrit. apparently filled with bodies or iraqi troops or civilians executed by isis militants. weve learned the u.s. is now flying armed drones over baghdad. pentagon correspondent barbara starr joins us now with the latest. armed drones. thats not what we expected, we thought theyd be unarmed. is it just baghdad or northern iraq as well? are th...

Sure what those things are. armed drones present a great opportunity to talk about that. we think of drones as things that fly over coforeign countri. they decrease the cost of military development. by the year 2017 they will be doing the work of police departments doing surveillance. are they capable of anti social behavior? are they capable of executing tasks that have a cost to human life and health. the answer is absolutely. >> i think of these things as operated people. >> drones right now ...