What you are asking is the way of which agent and asset to penetrate. There is a playbook in play for agent and case officer alike, but unfortunately i cannot tell you what it said, i can make you understand what it need to be done, but i cannot tell you how that was done, hope this will be enough to satisfied your appetite
I will be going over that in part 2 of this article.
I usually wrote drunk because i hate writing just about anything, so i have to do that when i am most comfortable.... That's when i was drunk, i know it's weird but that's how i work
It's not really about professionalism, but about resources management.
I have to clear it out in the air, the US Military will not strike civilian on purpose, nor do we "Slack" on verifying any target, people need to understand this first.
It's about resource, And we simply do not have enough resource to laydown ground work for each target before we hit them, if we do, the window may be long gone, and it's quite impractical to do so.
Problem with the strike is, we can only choose to strike or not, and as i said, the Military would only strike the target look dodgy enough(like having association to known terrorist activities.) but it's extremely hard to actually understand the geopolitical ramification of said target in that window we have to decided on a strike.
Yes, sometime it would become a method or way for individual Afghani to take out grudge against someone, especially when that afghan informant have given out useful Intel before.