From: Common Dreams
COMMENT - The phony wars, started with enormous enthusiasm by the Bush Administration and DOD Contractors and those who also provided technology for those Contractors, or, doing a double team move, were both (Does this formula for prosperity gained by participating in a war run for the profit of Bush's friends sound familiar to anyone?) continued on past the BushCo and now is reaching the end of the ObamaWars, with a reprise of the action in Iraq.
Do those who profited ever feel any guilt for the number of children and innocent adults killed? Or do they go to bed at night thinking, "Thanks to the deaths of 782 children under three years of age my two adorable little children will have every advantage under the son. So it was a good idea!"
Pause to consider. More people every day are demanding Bush be charged with treason along with his co-schemers. Will retribution forget those who enabled? I think not. - Ed.
A stunning new exposé 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.
COMMENT - The phony wars, started with enormous enthusiasm by the Bush Administration and DOD Contractors and those who also provided technology for those Contractors, or, doing a double team move, were both (Does this formula for prosperity gained by participating in a war run for the profit of Bush's friends sound familiar to anyone?) continued on past the BushCo and now is reaching the end of the ObamaWars, with a reprise of the action in Iraq.
Do those who profited ever feel any guilt for the number of children and innocent adults killed? Or do they go to bed at night thinking, "Thanks to the deaths of 782 children under three years of age my two adorable little children will have every advantage under the son. So it was a good idea!"
Pause to consider. More people every day are demanding Bush be charged with treason along with his co-schemers. Will retribution forget those who enabled? I think not. - Ed.
Based on cache of secret slides leaked by national security whistleblower, stunning exposé by The Intercept reveals inner workings—and failures—of the U.S. military's clandestine efforts in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia
| The Intercept has obtained a cache of secret slides that provides a window into the inner workings of the U.S. military’s kill/capture operations at a key time in the evolution of the drone wars — between 2011 and 2013. (Image: The Intercept) |
A stunning new exposé 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 a right 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." MORE
