Former US military intel chief: The Obama administration loves the ability 'to find a guy in the middle of the desert in some sh---y little village and drop a bomb on his head'

Since taking office, the Obama administration has relentlessly pursued a drone campaign against terrorist targets throughout the world.

That targeted killing campaign has come at the expense of missions that attempt to capture individual terrorists, Jeremy Scahill reports for The Intercept citing Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Drone operations allow the US to launch attacks overseas while leaving a low operational footprint with relatively little risk to US personnel. The operations are officially intended to result in either the capture or killing of targets. But in practice, the targets are rarely if ever actually captured.

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