{"id":326333,"date":"2017-09-16T14:59:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T13:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cia-seeking-authority-to-conduct-drone-attacks-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2017-09-16T14:59:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T13:59:36","slug":"cia-seeking-authority-to-conduct-drone-attacks-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cia-seeking-authority-to-conduct-drone-attacks-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA seeking authority to conduct drone attacks in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is seeking authority from the White House to carry out covert drone attacks in Afghanistan and other war zones, along with the Pentagon, which has so far the lead role for conducting such airstrikes in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Citing current and former intelligence and military officials, <em>The New York<\/em> <em>Times<\/em> reported \u00a0on Friday that\u00a0President Donald Trump favors granting the CIA\u00a0greater authority\u00a0to take on a more direct role in fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to the sources, CIA Director Mike Pompeo\u00a0has in recent weeks made a forceful case to Trump that the restrictions imposed on the agency during the administration of former President Barack Obama\u00a0has limited the US\u2019s ability to conduct \u201ccounter-terrorism operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obama imposed the restrictions in part to limit civilian casualties, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo suggested earlier this week that Trump favors granting the spy agency&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/09\/16\/535372\/US-military-drone-attacks-Afghanistan-Pakistan-CIA-Pentagon\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is seeking authority from the White House to carry out covert drone attacks in Afghanistan and other war zones, along with the Pentagon, which has so far the lead role for conducting such airstrikes in the country. Citing current and former intelligence and military officials, The New York Times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-326333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}