For 14 months -- between Sept. 3, 2010 and Oct. 30, 2011 -- the CIA did not always know who their targeted strikes were killing, according to a review of classified documents by NBC News. During this period, about 1 in 4 drone kills in Pakistan were classified as “other militants” -- a catch-all descriptor used by the CIA to describe anyone killed
Documents Suggest CIA Didn’t Always Know Who It Was Drone-Killing
During a period in 2010-11, about one in four drone kills in Pakistan were classified as what the CIA calls “other militants.”