Barrack Obama defended the use of drones and announced more narrow parameters for the use of them to kill terrorists overseas.
In a speech on counterterrorism policy at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., Obama defended the drone strikes as legal and necessary to national security, saying “We must define our effort not as a boundless 'global war on terror' - but rather as a series of persistent, targeted efforts to dismantle specific networks of violent extremists that threaten America. In many cases, this will involve partnerships with other countries."