The CIA wasn’t always aware of the affiliations of its drone-strike targets, according to NBC-reviewed classified intelligence reports. When 600 people were killed by drones in a 14-month period in Pakistan, one in four of those were called “other militants” because the CIA could not determine affiliations. Some reports also showed discrepancies between how many people were killed in an attack. Officials say none killed were noncombatants, except for the girlfriend or wife of an al Qaeda leader—a number that drone experts call “not believable.”
