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The Drone Papers

See the article: The Drone Papers (The Intercept, link) "The Intercept has obtained a cache of secret documents detailing the inner workings of the U.S. military’s assassination program in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The documents,
See the article: The Drone Papers (The Intercept, link) "The Intercept has obtained a cache of secret documents detailing the inner workings of the U.S. military’s assassination program in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The documents,
See the article: The Drone Papers (The Intercept, link) “The Intercept has obtained a cache of secret documents detailing the inner workings of the U.S. military’s assassination program in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The documents, provided by a whistleblower, offer an unprecedented glimpse into Obama’s drone wars.”The Assassination Complex – Secret military documents expose the inner workings of Obama’s drone wars (link) – A Visual Glossary Decoding the language of covert warfare (link) – The Kill Chain: The lethal bureaucracy behind Obama’s drone war (link) – Find, Fix, Finish: For the Pentagon, creating an architecture of assassination meant navigating a turf war with the CIA (link) – Manhunting in the Hindu Kush: Civilian casualties and strategic failures in America’s longest war (link) – Firing Blind: Flawed Intelligence and the Limits of Drone Technology (link) – The Life and Death of Objective Peckham: Stripped of British citizenship and killed by an American drone (link) – Target Africa: The U.S. military’s expanding footprint in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (link) – The Alphabet of Assassination: A guide to the acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms used in The Drone Papers. We defer to definitions provided in the source text where available; other interpretations are based on open source material (link) and Documents: – Small Footprint Operations 2/13 (link) – Small Footprint Operations 5/13 (link) – Operation Haymaker (link) – Geolocation Watchlist (link) Also: Snowden and Ellsberg hail leak of drone documents from new whistleblower (Guardian, link): “Classified documents on US assassination program released to the Intercept welcomed by men who exposed NSA surveillance and Pentagon Papers”