Musharraf did allow each drone hit, claims US paper

According to the paper, former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf insisted that he approve each strike in advance. By mid-2008, Musharraf had turned down nearly as many strikes as he had approved, and the administration believed that some insurgent leaders had been warned by the Pakistanis of their presence on the CIA target list.More than, according to the paper, half of the 44 attacks the Bush administration launched in Pakistan over a four-year period took place in the last four months of 2008, after an elected government headed by President Asif Ali Zardari replaced Musharraf.Within days of Obama’s inauguration, the new White House legal team began examining all existing covert authorizations.The new president had told the American Society of International law during his 2008 campaign that Bush had “put forward a false choice between adhering to domestic and international law and providing security to the American people.These legal regimes exist precisely to keep us safe, and I will make clear that my administration has faith in the rule of law.”