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cmurf on May 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. NSA domestic phone spying program illegal: ap...

I don't understand the question. The history of drones predates Barack Obama becoming a state senator of Illinois though. https://understandingempire.wordpress.com/2-0-a-brief-histor...

netheril96 on May 8, 2015 [–]

The meaning of the question is that Obama hadn't thought he himself would authorize drone strikes until he became president himself. Not that Obama hadn't imagined the existence of drone strikes.

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