Pentagon Investigates Themselves on Botched Drone Strike That Killed Children, Finds They Did...

SPC Jeff Daley, PhD - It's commentary, yes. But there is no doubt there was some level of negligence. You don't just drone kids and find no one did anything wrong. You don't just "miscommunicate" and kill kids. People should be held responsible.

SPC Jeff Daley, PhD - The complete disregard for rights and restrictions on the government's power is exactly what is the issue here. The pentagon should not be able to get away with literal murder. Heads should roll.

SPC Jeff Daley, PhD the problem here, is not that we want to hold people accountable with no evidence to support doing so. It is that the Pentagon "investigation" concluded that not one SHOULD BE held accountable. It was just a big "whoopsie," oh well!

That is the problem. So if the people who are called upon to investigate WTF went wrong fail to find ANYTHING went wrong, then the investigator needs to be strung up by their yarbles for their own failure / dereliction.

As a former Intel guy, I know for a fact that if my team had sent up Intel that Abu Bad Guy was in that car, it would NOT have been droned. Only after EYES ON verifying Abu Bad Guy and ONLY Abu Bad Guy (or Abu Bad Guy and other known Bad Guys) would this strike have happened.

So... Either no one required eyes on. Which is a failure. Or someone gave eyes on and their report was incorrect. Which is a failure (possibly multiple failures, including vetting of the source). Or the eyes on report was accurate, but the drone operator lost track of the correct vehicle and took out the incorrect vehicle. Which is a failure. Or all of that went right, but the weapon tracked the wrong vehicle. Which is a weapons failure AND a reporting failure, and POSSIBLY a coverup, which is also a failure.

But there was DEFINITELY at least one SEVERE - and attributable - failure here.

SFC Casey O'Mally - This is the problem when an organization performs a half ass investigation. We can all appreciate mistakes that happen, but they need to be identified in the correct context, then people can accept the evaluation and see the right and wrong in the actions taken.