Obama's Drone Comment Was No Slip-Up, Official Says -- CNN
Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama's public acknowledgment of drone attacks in Pakistan was no accident, a senior administration official said Tuesday.
The comment the president made Monday was "neither a slip-up" nor a "secret message to the Pakistanis," said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
In a forum on YouTube and Google+, the president said a "pinpoint strike" is "less intrusive" of other countries' sovereignty than other military ways to target al Qaeda.
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