US Drone Killings: Edward Snowden Like Leak Of Documents On Drone Casualties [POLL]
The Intercept has got some damning information about US drone killings via an anonymous source, perhaps the next Edward Snowden, if these leaks continue to gain momentum.
Currently The Intercept has the documents detailing the US drone affairs in Yemen and Somalia. The documents have now been made available on The Intercept as The Drone Papers, for all to see.
Here's the description of the nature of these revelations as stated on the website:
"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 source revealed the shockingly callous and ruthless way in which the authorities assign their targets. The Belfast Telegraph got the information that the source leaked to The Intercept, in which he talks of "kill lists" and "ultimately assassinated on orders from the highest echelons of the US government."
The source highlighted the unethical means of monitoring these people and detailed how they tag them for death, like "baseball cards."
"This outrageous explosion of watchlisting - of monitoring people and racking and stacking them on lists, assigning them numbers, assigning them 'baseball cards,' assigning them death sentences without notice, on a worldwide battlefield - it was, from the very first instance, wrong," the source revealed.
There are some pretty incriminating excerpts from the documents. For instance this one which reveals that drone strikes meant to take down 35 targets have actually claimed the lives of 219 other people - who might have been innocent.
"The military is easily capable of adapting to change, but they don't like to stop anything they feel is making their lives easier, or is to their benefit. And this certainly is, in their eyes, a very quick, clean way of doing things. It's a very slick, efficient way to conduct the war, without having to have the massive ground invasion mistakes of Iraq and Afghanistan.
"But at this point, they have become so addicted to this machine, to this way of doing business, that it seems like it's going to become harder and harder to pull them away from it the longer they're allowed to continue operating in this way."
