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At 3:00 in the morning, but sober military pilot saying that there is something that we cannot explain? >> that is correct, individuals that have high security clearances, trained observers, we have paid them and put them through schools to be trained. scrutinizing what they are seeing. these are individuals who we trust to fly weapons platform, sometimes with live ammunition over u.s. cities and to fight and win wars on our behalf.n they are reporting that they are seeing something that they can't explain. it's also being backed up by the video evidence and radar data and other witnesses. >> ...

Attacked. they used social media as the weapons platform to damage american democracy and so distropical storm. if they take that as basic fundamental ideology that america shouldn't be attacked like this then they can reach out with the public/private partnership they need to identify real humans that are spreading propaganda and shut them down the way they did with terrorist media. >> let's listen to senator lindsey graham. >> we can talk among ourselves in 140 characters. some people are better at that than others. some should probably do less of it. these technologies also can be used to u...

Button, and a small missile is fired. but some are asking whether years from now we'll debate drones the way we're 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 cia's 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 killed mostly in pakistan and yemen were insurgents and how many were innocent civilians. >> in u...

Receives authorization, pushes a button, and a small missile is fired. but some are asking whether years from now we'll debate drones the way we're 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 cia's 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 killed mostly in pakistan and yemen were insurgents and how many...

Mostly in pakistan and yemen were insurgents and how many were innocent civilians. >> in u.s. public opinion, there is greater support for killing people than torturing them. >> reporter: why? >> it's hard to know why. i think we believe that individuals we can see with this high technology precise discriminate weapons platform is better at identifying who they are. but in fact, most of the individuals who we kill, we have much less information about than the individuals -- the 119 captured. >> reporter: mike azenco has been following and criticizing the drone program for years. >> one of the ...