CIA to Hand Drone Program Over to the Pentagon

The controversial Central Intelligence Agency drone program might have an expiration date

The Obama administration is going strip the CIA of its lethal drone power and hand it over to the Pentagon, reports the The Daily Beast

The CIA has been carrying out drone strikes against suspected terrorists since 2002, when the flying robots' first victim was reported. The Pentagon, through its secretive Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), has its own drone program. Under the yet-unconfirmed plan, the two programs would be merged

Both the CIA and Pentagon programs have been under intense public scrutiny in the past few weeks after President Barack Obama picked John Brennan, one of the masterminds behind the secretive drone program, to lead the CIA