A Day Job Waiting for a Kill Shot a World Away

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/us/drone-pilots-waiting-for-a-kill-shot-7000-miles-away.html?pagewanted=all

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From: barry levine 
Date: Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:45 AM
Subject: re: A Day Job Waiting for a Kill Shot a World Away
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

     To the law, it is irrelevant that in our AirForce, "only pilots, all of them officers, employ [drones] for strikes".  Within the law of war, any uniformed member of our armed forces can be expected to use deadly force. Missile strikes from drones become problematic when they are used by our CIA. Since agents and officers of our CIA are not members of our uniformed military, their use of deadly force is either murder or a war crime.

Barry Haskell Levine