Midknight Review -- new and revised: Rand Paul's filibuster victory was more than a defeat for Eric Holder; it ran the Obama Administration into hiding as to the total number killed by drone. That information has been destroyed because of Paul.

The AirForceTimes.com gives this report:

Defense Department spokesman Cmdr. Bill Speaks said the department was not involved in the decision to remove the statistics. AFCENT (Air Force Central Command) did not respond to a request for comment by press time.

The data removal coincided with increased scrutiny on RPA policy caused by President Barack Obama’s nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA. Brennan faced opposition in the Senate over the use of RPAs and his defense of their legality in his role as Obama’s deputy national security adviser.

On Feb. 20, two days before the metadata indicates the scrubbed files were created, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., sent a letter to Brennan saying that he would filibuster the nomination over concerns about using RPA strikes inside the U.S., a threat he carried out for over 12 hours on March 6 (Brennan was confirmed the next day).

That same day, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told a crowd in South Carolina that strikes by American RPAs have killed 4,700 people.

“Sometimes you hit innocent people, and I hate that, but we’re at war, and we’ve taken out some very senior members of al-Qaida,” Graham was quoted by the Patch website as saying.

Editor's notes: in summary, we learn that the military has scrubbed all references to the death count by drone in the Afghan War Theater. This occurred just two days after Senator Rand Paul sent a letter to John Brennan announcing his opposition to some of the strategies in the Obama drone war. making it clear to those of us who can handle the truth, that the Administration was preparing a cover-up as relates to the number of incidental deaths in the Afghan/Pakistan drone war. The last numbers I read spoke of 46 al Qaeda leaders killed and 4500 "neighbors" to these bombings, also killed, as "collateral" damage.

Of course, in the beginning of this Obama bombing strategy, Barry tried to assure the critics that no innocents would be killed under his drone strategy, only enemy combatants. Of course, with the first strike, his words have proven to be, yet, another lie and now, we will not know the total of innocents killed, going forward. But no big deal; Lindsey Graham has assured us that this war and the deaths of innocents is to be expected. Apparently this military moralist is fine with killing 100 people to get one al-Qaeda dead guy.

Because this Administration no longer captures and interrogates, we now know less about the group and their immedicate and short term plans, than in 2000.

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In case our reference article is destroyed on command of Obama, here is the titled reference:

AFremoves RPA airstrike number from summary

By Brian Everstine and Aaron Mehta - Staff writers
Posted : Friday Mar 8, 2013 12:34:50 EST

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

Rand Paul's filibuster victory was more than a defeat for Eric Holder; it ran the Obama Administration into hiding as to the total number killed by drone. That information has been destroyed because of Paul.

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