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Everything You Need to Know About Drones

KILLING MACHINES

A primer on what we know about the program—and what’s still a secret.

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The Obama administration’s drone program may be Washington’s worst-kept secret, but we still don’t know much about how it works.

From Pakistan to Yemen, strikes are widely reported, and the administration frequently acknowledges them, however evasively.

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