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https://one.sightlinemg.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/steve-bennett.jpg.jpg?w=468468509Congress was for shifting America's armed drone program from the CIA to the Pentagon, until it wasn't. With two American hostages dead due to an errant US drone strike in Pakistan, will lawmakers again alter course?