Stunning news that US newspapers knew of a secret US drone base and said nothing, because the current administration asked them and they agreed. Whatever happened to the press being a watchdog? Is the worm finally turning on the killer drone methodology? What does it take, when only recently can a (British) paper write that a current nominee has
brought into focus the quasi-official lethal drone programme, which has killed an estimated 3,000 militants and civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen.
