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Mini-Me: John Brennan, Drones, Killing Children + Drone Meta-RECAP

Huh? John Brennan vs. a Sixteen-Year-Old Medea Benjamin Huffington Post, 01/08/2013 In October 2011, 16-year-old Tariq Aziz attended a gathering in Islamabad where he was taught how to use a video camera so he could document the drones that were constantly circling over his Pakistani village, terrorizing and killing his family and neighbors. Two days …

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Steven Aftergood: Congress to Public: Butt Out — We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Intelligence Oversight or Public Accountability — ESPECIALLY on Drones and Assassinations

Intelligence Oversight Steps Back from Public Accountability The move by Congress to renew the FISA Amendments Act for five more years without amendments came as a bitter disappointment to civil libertarians who believe that the Act emphasizes government surveillance authority at the expense of constitutional protections.  Amendments that were offered to provide more public information …

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David Isenberg: BusinessWeek on Morality of Drones

Drones: The Morality of War From the Sky By Jeffrey Goldberg Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 11, 2012 President Obama, who is putatively a civil libertarian—or, at the very least, the preferred candidate of most civil libertarians—has achieved something remarkable over the course of his term. He has led an expansive war against America’s enemies using lethal …

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DefDog: The Gathering Storm – CIA Asks for More Drones, Most Clueless About Tribes, and Rest of World Routing Around the State

These three hang together. CIA claims it needs more drones The CIA has asked the White House to increase the number of drones it employs to transform it into a paramilitary force, despite recent statistics that show the majority of drone deaths are civilians. CIA Director David Petraeus submitted a proposal that could add as …

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Berto Jongman: Variations on a Theme – CIA Drones and Suicide Bombs

Obama terror drones: CIA tactics in Pakistan include targeting rescuers and funerals Total US strikes: 349 Obama strikes: 297 Total reported killed: 2,593-3,365 Read full article and see data sidebars. Whither Suicide Bombings? Exponential growth in suicide attacks since 2001 shows that they have increasingly become a practical tool in a large variety of intra-national …

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NIGHTWATCH: Everyone Has Drones Now — And Drone Counter-Measures

Israel-Drone: Update. Forty-eight hours into the investigation of an unmanned aircraft flying into Israeli airspace there is no confirmation who flew the drone. Saturday morning, Israeli radar tracked the drone flying toward the coast from the Mediterranean, then over the Gaza strip and into Israel. Twenty minutes after it crossed into southern Israel, scrambled fighter …

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DefDog: Living Under Drones – Outcomes in Pakistan

Living Under Drones: Death, Injury and Trauma to Civilians from US Drone Practices in Pakistan This report is the result of nine months of research by the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic of Stanford Law School (Stanford Clinic) and the Global Justice Clinic at New York University School of Law (NYU Clinic). Professor …

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