Not to disagree with the refinement of targeting and the key point of your message the political consequences of this hit will take far longer to come out and m

Not to disagree with the refinement of targeting and the key point of your message the political consequences of this hit will take far longer to come out and may well include a sum over bodycount which is far far higher on both sides. An ability to conduct surgical strikes doesn't necessarily translate to killing fewer civilians overall: It just alters when, and why. The key point of interest is the use of commodity D.C. based cloud services to manage the information. I think we've got well beyond the slowly boiled frog quality in what the cloud is being used for "for your convenience" I wonder if there is a valid warrant which could be served by any economy on that data? I wonder what levels of encryption at rest they have over it, how much they can limit introspection of the running components.