As we know, President Obama's counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, has backed down a little from his claim a year ago that there had been no civilian deaths in drone strikes since 2010:
Brennan was asked about his claim last June that for almost a year
“there hasn’t been a single collateral death because of the exceptional
proficiency, precision of the capabilities we’ve been able to develop.”
On
Sunday, he appeared to qualify his statement. "Well, what I said was
that over a period of time before my public remarks that we had no
information about a single civilian, a noncombatant, being killed," he
said. (Los Angeles Times, April 29, 2012)
Now we've learned from the New York Times how they manage to avoid the information: [jump]
