drone strikes deleted

(Reuters) - With debate intensifying in the United States over the use of drone aircraft, the U.S. military said on Sunday that it had removed data about air strikes carried out by unmanned planes in Afghanistan from its monthly air power summaries.
U.S. Central Command, which oversees the Afghanistan war, said in a statement the data had been removed because it was "disproportionately focused" on the use of weapons by the remotely piloted aircraft as it was published only when strikes were carried out - which happened during only 3 percent of sorties. Most missions were for reconnaissance, it said.

So much for President Barack Obama's pledge of "transparency" when it comes to using the unmanned planes to prosecute various kinds of war.

It is hard to imagine that the principle asserted by Central Command will not come in handy in future, whether at home or abroad.