LoBiondo sees expanded role for drones in Africa

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U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo returned last week from his seventh trip to Africa, this time focusing on emerging terror threats.
LoBiondo, R-2nd, said he wanted a better idea about which CIA policies were working and which weren't. While much of the discussion was classified, he said one thing was clear to him: Drone strikes work.
"I don't want to think about where we'd be without it," LoBiondo said of the drone program.
"When we take out an operational leader from a terror organization, they don't have a problem filling that position," he said. "But they lose the capability and institutional knowledge. That's all to our benefit. It leaves them much less capable, and it forces them to worry about their own survival."
As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, LoBiondo met with members of the CIA during visits to Rwanda, Djibouti and South Sudan, which is in the midst of civil war four years into its independence.

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