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Other commanders in chief have presided over wars with far higher casualty counts," the report continues, "but no president has ever relied so extensively on the secret killing of individuals to advance the nation's security goals." what drone warfare began as a bush administration program. but the obama white house has accelerated and expanded it vastly. "washington post" published a blockbuster report this week that fills in some of the picture. the apparatus involves dozens of secret facilities, virj wall cockpits in the southwest and the use of drones in the first three years of the obama ...

Joining us now is spencer ackerman who writes about national security for the excellent danger room blog. thanks for checking in. >> tagks for having me, chris. >> spencer, can you explain why we have seen such escalation in the use of drones in the first three years of the obama administration? what is the rational, the reasoning strateically behind it? >> there's a strategic argument, and then there's a political argument that's a little bit more difficult to make. the strategic argument is that this is a really advanced and developed way to apply the lethal force that usually in the past wa...