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The assassination complex : inside the government's secret drone warfare program / Jeremy Scahill and the staff of The Intercept.
Van Pelt Library UG1242.D7 S33 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scahill, Jeremy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drone aircraft--Government policy--United States.
- Drone aircraft.
- Targeted killing--United States--History--21st century.
- Targeted killing.
- Targeted killing--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Drone aircraft--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Terrorism--United States--Prevention--Decision making.
- Terrorism.
- Military intelligence--United States--Evaluation.
- Military intelligence.
- Military intelligence--Technological innovations--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Military policy.
- Military intelligence--Technological innovations.
- Evaluation.
- Decision making.
- History.
- Government policy.
- United States--Military policy--Moral and ethical aspects.
- United States.
- National security--United States.
- National security.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Other Title:
- Intercept.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
- Summary:
- The "author and his colleagues at the investigative website, The Intercept, expose stunning new details about America's secret assassination policy."--NoveList.
- When the US government discusses drone strikes publicly, it offers assurances that such operations are a more precise alternative to troops on the ground, but the implicit message from the administration has been trust, but don't verify. The online magazine The Intercept obtained a cache of secret slides that provide a window into the inner workings of the US military's kill/capture operations in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia, and show assassination to be central to US counterterrorism policy. This campaign, carried out by two presidents through four presidential terms, has been deliberately obscured from the public-- until now.
- Contents:
- Preface / Betsy Reed
- Foreword : Elected by circumstance / Edward Snowden
- The drone legacy / Jeremy Scahill
- Death and the watchlist / Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux
- Why I leaked the watchlist documents / anonymous
- Find, fix, finish / Jeremy Scahill
- The kill chain / Cora Currier
- The heart of the drone maze / Jeremy Scahill
- Target Africa / Nick Turse
- Death by metadata / Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald
- Firing blind / Cora Currier and Peter Maass
- Stingrays at home / Jeremy Scahill and Margot Williams
- The life and death of Objective Peckham / Ryan Gallagher
- Manhunting in the Hindu Kush / Ryan Devereaux
- Afterword : War without end / Glenn Greenwald.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-212) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781501144134
- 1501144138
- OCLC:
- 936256586
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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