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Foreign policy about counterterrorism. they are about how we choose to do war. and obama's first and second were referendums on the bush wars. and this election in a way will be a referendum on what president obama has done how he has conducted war. in some cases convertly that might not put boots on the ground but they can never be error free. where accidents will happen as we found out this week. if all goes as planned there are only terrorists and no civilians in the vehicle or object being targeted but war never goes entirely as planned, not even war conducted by repeat control. gene, than...

As -- personally i think they should be treating it all of it as a law enforcement issue. furthermore, it's nice to see the president come out and apologize, but as david mentioned, these drones are killing children and women all the time over there. and -- >> and you don't -- >> and we don't hear about it. >> and the issue is that we can do things now that we could not do before. we can send flying robots up to track, identify and kill specific individuals. it's kind of war by assassination, essentially. and, you know there's a powerful incentive for this president, who has vastly expanded th...

Drone war over the years since 9/11. you see, cnn and myself, covering exclusively the visit of the u.n. special raffle, human rights, visit to pakistan to investigate innocent victims killed in drone strikes. and we are now hearing from a lot of activists saying it is time the u.s. apologizes for others killed in this war, too. natalie? >> we thank you, sima for us out of bangkok on this story. let's bring in former cia operative bob bear, currently cnn intelligence and security analyst. he joins us live from california. bob, thanks for being with us. this attack after drone by the cia was or...

Starts to devolve into kind of benghazi style ongoing investigations forever? >> oh, yes -- >> what are we looking at in terms of getting to the bottom of it? >> susan, that's the biggest understatement you ever made and you didn't know it. of course. the chairman of the so-called benghazi committee said yesterday that he's not releasing his report until next year. that he wants hillary clinton to testify in private. he will not release her emails. so they're moving that into a political, presidential political year. don't think for a second -- by the way don't forget that the house armed serv...

A war against islam. but the drone war is certainly part of it. the torture program is certainly part of it. i don't know if you can say one is more influential and creating more of a problem than the other. >> now, you were telling me before, and you didn't bring it up in the piece, that there is -- there's obviously various ways that the drone program is used, you know, going after a known terrorist. there's no other way to get them and they kill that terrorist. but then there's something you say that are called signature strikes. tell me about em this. >> these are probably the most morally...