Obama's drone crimes
Last week, the Intercept website published a series of articles titled "The Drone Papers,"based on a trove of leaked documents from an unnamed whistleblower who is reportedly a member of the intelligence community and worked on the programs described in the files. As journalist Jeremy Scahill, one of the lead authors, explained:
The series is intended to serve as a long-overdue public examination of the methods and outcomes of America's assassination program...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.
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