{"id":85399,"date":"2013-05-03T04:11:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T22:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=85399"},"modified":"2013-05-05T22:54:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T17:24:03","slug":"us-drone-strikes-being-used-as-alternative-to-guantanamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/us-drone-strikes-being-used-as-alternative-to-guantanamo\/","title":{"rendered":"US Drone Strikes Being Used As Alternative To Guant\u00e1namo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lawyer who first drew up White House policy on lethal drone strikes has accused the\u00a0Obama administration\u00a0of overusing them because of its reluctance to capture prisoners that would otherwise have to be sent to\u00a0Guant\u00e1namo Bay, the Guardian\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/may\/02\/us-drone-strikes-guantanamo\">more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/us-drone-strikes-being-used-as-alternative-to-guantanamo\/drone-11\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-85900\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-85900\" title=\"drone-11\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/drone-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/drone-11.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/drone-11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/drone-11-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":85900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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