claim: by 2009, "dozens of senior terrorists had been taken off the battlefield" by drones.
author: hillary clinton
evidence_1: complete list of hillary clinton's political stances on drone. ... clinton served as  united states secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, a u.s. senator from new  york state from 2001 to 2009 and first lady of the united ... should the military  fly drones over foreign countries to gain intelligence and kill suspected terrorists?
evidence_2: jun 13, 2014 ... clinton argued that drones were a critical tool in fighting terrorism without risking  american lives. by 2009, she said, "it was widely known that dozens of senior  terrorists had been taken off the battlefield by drones, and we later learned that  bin laden himself worried about the heavy losses that drones were ...
evidence_3: nov 4, 2016 ... how: killed in a drone strike. where: nangarhar province, afghanistan. the state  department last year designated khan a global terrorist, saying he is the leader  of islamic state in khorasan, which includes former members of the pakistani and  afghan taliban. khan had previously been a tehrik-e taliban ...
evidence_4: apr 10, 2015 ... touting her decisions at the state department, she wrote in her memoir hard  choices that by 2009, "dozens of senior terrorists had been taken off the  battlefield" by drones. while it's difficult to find a definitive number just using  publicly available evidence, we found that even a conservative estimate using ...
evidence_5: may 23, 2013 ... from our use of drones to the detention of terrorist suspects, the decisions that  we are making now will define the type of nation -- and world -- that we leave to  our children. .... dozens of highly skilled al qaeda commanders, trainers, bomb  makers and operatives have been taken off the battlefield.