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More Strikes, Less Transparency

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Clearly, Trump is just too modest to want the public to know about his principled non-interventionism:

The Trump administration has revoked part of an Obama-era executive order mandating an annual accounting of how many civilians have died in military and CIA strikes, reducing the potential for public scrutiny of counterterrorism activities overseas.

The White House said in a statement that the change affected one section of President Barack Obama’s 2016 order on civilian casualties, which was part of an effort to provide a clearer picture of the attacks.

The section that was rescinded required an annual public report tallying how many counterterrorism strikes involving drones or manned aircraft occurred outside war zones, as well as estimating how many civilians were killed.

In a message sent to Capitol Hill shortly before the announcement, the State Department said the report was redundant because Congress had subsequently passed legislation requiring the Defense Department to provide a separate, more exhaustive annual report on civilian casualties resulting from military activities.

“This action eliminates superfluous reporting requirements, requirements that do not improve government transparency, but rather distract our intelligence professionals from their primary mission,” the department said in an email.

But the congressionally mandated report covers only military strikes rather than those conducted by the CIA, creating what Larry Lewis, a director at the Center for Naval Analysis and an expert on civilian casualties, called a “transparency gap.”

Meanwhile, another episode of “how can you tell the parody from the parodied?”

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