"How did all this indiscriminate drone warfare unauthorized by Congress get started?"
With the 2002 AUMF that gave presidents the authority to conduct strikes without congress authorizing them first. This was a--you guessed it!--Bush Jr policy proposal that became law in 2002 and has authorized US presidents to use military force (what AU…
"How did all this indiscriminate drone warfare unauthorized by Congress get started?"
With the 2002 AUMF that gave presidents the authority to conduct strikes without congress authorizing them first. This was a--you guessed it!--Bush Jr policy proposal that became law in 2002 and has authorized US presidents to use military force (what AUMF stands for) without consulting congress if the targets of strikes fall under post-9/11 terrorism definitions. You'll recall that Obama once (controversially) killed an AmCit in Yemen under this statute.
Monoview - there’s already been some evidence & reporting so we can probably skip the “maybe.” Some government records systems are a Rube Goldberg agglomeration of technologies of various eras back to the ‘60s. For anyone not familiar with that name, you’re like Musk’s tech team - too young to know how things got cobbled together over decades of underfunding. Thus you’d have a difficult time replicating the required functionality with all the built in exceptions to what the roolz appear to say MOST of the time. Misunderstanding the Social security Numident db was a small example
I know rube, charlie and joseph mccarthy, also. born in 1958. thx J AZ. first computer class was with cards. my cell phone is smaller then my first transistor radio!
Literally 100 yrs ago in internet time and I'll bet even folks that experienced it can hardly recall the details. Whereas drone technology is vastly different today and essentially how war is conducted day-to-day basis...so not comparable in any sense.
"How did all this indiscriminate drone warfare unauthorized by Congress get started?"
With the 2002 AUMF that gave presidents the authority to conduct strikes without congress authorizing them first. This was a--you guessed it!--Bush Jr policy proposal that became law in 2002 and has authorized US presidents to use military force (what AUMF stands for) without consulting congress if the targets of strikes fall under post-9/11 terrorism definitions. You'll recall that Obama once (controversially) killed an AmCit in Yemen under this statute.
Now those are Presidential mistakes. A bad website rollout really doesn't make the top 100.
In the end, everybody always blames the programmers.
Especially when you look at all the good it has done since then.
Maybe the DOGE shenanigans will totally fuck up the feds computer systems. That would be vying for #1 on the greatest hits chart.
Monoview - there’s already been some evidence & reporting so we can probably skip the “maybe.” Some government records systems are a Rube Goldberg agglomeration of technologies of various eras back to the ‘60s. For anyone not familiar with that name, you’re like Musk’s tech team - too young to know how things got cobbled together over decades of underfunding. Thus you’d have a difficult time replicating the required functionality with all the built in exceptions to what the roolz appear to say MOST of the time. Misunderstanding the Social security Numident db was a small example
I know rube, charlie and joseph mccarthy, also. born in 1958. thx J AZ. first computer class was with cards. my cell phone is smaller then my first transistor radio!
Luv it, my friend. Me, same. But it was my big brothers transistor dialin in the hits
Literally 100 yrs ago in internet time and I'll bet even folks that experienced it can hardly recall the details. Whereas drone technology is vastly different today and essentially how war is conducted day-to-day basis...so not comparable in any sense.