Drone Papers: Leaked Military Documents Expose US "Assassination Complex"
"A stunning expose by the Intercept, which includes the publication of classified documents leaked by an intelligence source, provides an unprecedented look at the U.S. military's secretive global assassination program.

The series of articles, titled The Drone Papers, follows months of investigation and uses rare primary source documents and slides to reveal to the public, for the first time, the flaws and consequences of the U.S. military`s 14-year aerial campaign being conducted in Yemen, Somalia, and Afghanistan - one that has consistently used faulty information, killed an untold number of civilians, and stymied intelligence-gathering through its 'kill/capture' program that too often relies on killing rather than capturing.

'The series is intended to serve as a long-overdue public examination of the methods and outcomes of America's assassination program.' writes the investigation's lead reporter, Jeremy Scahill.  'This campaign, carried out by two presidents through four presidential terms, has been shrouded in excessive secrecy.  The public has aright to see these documents not only to engage in an informed debate about the future of U.S. wars, both overt and covert, but also to understand the circumstances under which the U.S. government arrogates to itself the right to sentence individuals to death without the established checks and balances of arrest, trial, and appeal.'"

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