The Assassination Complex: Inside the Governments Secret Drone Warfare Program By Jeremy Scahill
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A searing facts driven indictment of America s drone wars and their implications for US democracy and foreign policy A must read for concerned citizens Library Journal starred review from bestselling author Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues at the investigative website The Intercept. Kindle The Assassination complex definition Drones are a tool not a policy The policy is assassination But drone strikes often kill people other than the intended target These deaths which have included women and children dwarf the number of actual combatants who have been assassinated by drones They have generated anger toward the United States among foreign populations and have even become a recruiting tool for jihadists. The Assassination complexbud The first drone strike outside a declared war zone was conducted than twelve years ago but it was not until May 2013 that the White House released a set of standards and procedures for conducting such strikes However there was no explanation of the internal process used to determine whether a suspect should be killed without being indicted or tried even if that suspect is an American citizen The implicit message of the Obama administration has been Trust but don t verify The Assassination Complex reveals stunning details of the government s secretive drone warfare program based on documents supplied by a confidential source in the intelligence community These documents make it possible to begin the long overdue debate about the policy of drone warfare and how it is conducted The Assassination Complex allows us to understand at last the circumstances under which the US government grants itself the right to sentence individuals to death without the established checks and balances of arrest trial and appeal readers will be left in no doubt that drone warfare affronts morality and the Constitution Kirkus Reviews The Assassination Complex Inside the Governments Secret Drone Warfare ProgramJeremy Scahill is an American investigative journalist and author whose work focuses on the use of private military companies. The Assassination Complex booking S radio and TV program Democracy Now Scahill is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute and a frequent contributor to The Nation Jeremy Scahill is an American investigative journalist and author whose work focuses on the use of private military companies. The Assassination complexed definition S radio and TV program Democracy Now Scahill is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute and a frequent contributor to The Nation site_link This book is a very important read specially in the context of ongoing election fever in US It is all but natural to romanticize about Barack Obama s presidency when one is presented with an option between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton After all Obama called for change a change for law and order a change for ensuring justice is done for all In his own words when he was a senator But what is avoidable is refusing to ever allow our legal system to correct these mistakes. Book The Assassination complex definition However as Jeremy Scahill and the outstanding reporters and contributors of The Intercept the digital investigative agency founded by Scahill Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras show that Obama s call for change turned into status quo as soon as he moved from candidate to president On hindsight Obama s tenure did the same unjust attacks as his predecessor with increased lethality and impunity The key in this pursuit of deadly accuracy is pervasive and unaccounted use of drones This book is a compilation of the drone paper investigation done by the team at Intercept who poured over a cache of secret information leaked by a whistle blower within intelligence community The entire investigation can be read at The chapters are meticulously arranged starting with basic concepts which develop and intensify later in the book It all starts with a kill list which goes from Joint Special Operations Command JSOC to President of the United States POTUS via a chain of commands What is unknown is how someone gets placed in the kill list how information is collected about the individuals in the kill list and how why the person meets his end by a drone strike rather than capture and interrogation As it turns out Africa is not a declared war zone and is far away from mainland USA Therefore instead of having troops on ground human informants and sources operating in the region the drone strategy was adopted and perfected US Government has never explained why someone gets placed in the kill list thus denying the right to justice that candidate and Senator Obama had craved for This extrajudicial assassination is not limited to terrorists and this is where the balance of pendulum is disrupted Often civilians are killed in the process of eliminating terrorists and those civilians in military jargon are euphemism as EKEA or Enemy Killed in Action What nobody knows though is whether the killed is indeed an enemy It is important to remember that after any targeted killing persons on ground search and seize and identify the target This doesn t happen in Yemen Somalia where drones attack the target Consequently even after killing gathering of evidence and intelligence is not possible What follows after this overview is even chilling When there are no on the ground source how are the targets identified and tracked Drones can be equipped with a device that can subterfuge as a fake cellphone base tower thus capturing all phones and thus SIM cards in a specific geographical region The movement of the SIM cards are then tracked along with visuals obtained by the drone This combination creates a unique non human identification and when POTUS signs elimination of a target the person carrying the particular SIM card being tracked is killed Scahill explains that this particular method of obtaining intelligence is called SIGINT Signal intelligence as opposed to HUMINT Human intelligence And the remarkable downside of this approach is the complete reliance on signals Terrorists have used this and turned to their advantage Using random SIMs on disposable phones mixing SIM cards in a bag and then picking up one deliberately giving the SIM card to someone else examples abound where SIGINT is just not full proof Personally the two chapters that I loved the most are Death by metadata and The life and death of objective Peckham In Death by metadata Greenwald and Scahill explain the technicalities and fallibility that the powerful electronic surveillance devices used by NSA CIA FBI Pentagon create The unconstitutionality of collecting indiscriminate surveillance data has already been discussed umpteen number of times in all forms of media The life and death of objective Peckham is the case study of how Bilal el Berjawi was tracked revoked of his UK citizenship and then killed by US drone strike All in all this book opens the dark underbelly of US drone strike and lays it bare for common people to see A remarkable piece of investigative journalism this is a book that should be read by all irrespective of political affiliation and ideology Because while affiliations and ideologies operate on a mental ground drone strikes and intelligence gathering happen in a definite practical realm and it is paramount that we are aware of the realities that we are being subjected into without our knowledge and consent 256 The reliance on the use of drones has not only been presented as an effective alternative to boots on the ground but has become a major part of US counter terrorism policy Yet its indiscriminate use leading to many innocent bystanders being killed its implementation which appears to be based on questionable intelligence as well as its application as a means of assassination should be raising many questions The Assassination Complex looks at how drone warfare and related technologies used by the US Government in the 21st Century is rather than being an effective tool is causing problems than it solves 256 How much do you really know about drones and drone warfare Are you comfortable with drones targeting and killing suspects often outside a war zone who haven t been given any form of a trial Are you okay with the plethora of civilian casualties that occur in the name of fighting terrorism via drone warfare If any of this intrigues or concerns you The Assassination Complex tackles all of these issues and much much in a bold examination of a world that has been systematically swept under the rug It also demonstrates that the endless war on terror without any due process is alive and well and in many cases stronger than ever Right out of the gate this book deserves five big fat gold stars for its unforgiving transparent bravery Like his other books Scahill digs deep with exhaustive research introducing his readers to yet another issue that has been carefully cloaked under the guise of terrorism This compelling book is somewhat of an addendum to Edward Snowden s whistleblowing related to the US government s campaign of mass surveillance however this time around you ll be examining the world of drones Scahill and the fearless team over at The Intercept Glenn Greenwald Laura Poitras. PDF The Assassination complex regional Drone warfare the implications that come with selective killings outside of a designated war zone how people make kill lists and so the covert surveillance that accompanies the US government s gathering of meta data often on its own citizens The book explodes with a foreword by Ed Snowden setting the tone as it bombards you with its exhaustive research related to mass surveillance how people make it onto the watch list the no fly list and eventually the kill list okay ed by the commander in chief The title of the book implies that because drone killings have become so efficient to the military it is now the default methodology when it comes to fighting terrorism so much that the various government branches are somewhat addicted to its prowess The book also reveals how little suspects are actually captured or questioned as drones have become the preferred military strategy and demystifies the world of drone warfare using the drone papers a whistleblower s account and evidence to completely break down how people are selected and how targeted drone killings assassinations are carried out More so it reveals a stark contrast when it comes to civilian casualties when we compare manned operations vs drone strikes When it comes to the latter we assume that they re surgical but they re not. The Assassination Complex kindle books Drone strikes in Afghanistan were ten times likely to kill civilians than conventional aircraft This alone has become fuel for worldwide debates on the morality and efficacy of this elusive method of warfare Though it s not exactly a happy read I had a really hard time putting this book down because of how many questions it raises and how well it is presented Scahill s writing style captivates once again making this an absolutely riveting read whether you re for or against whistleblowing and or drone warfare Because this isn t a conspiracy theory it also serves as a completely transparent and unbiased account of this formerly muggy world of warfare and power. Assassination classroom vol 8 These disclosures Obama administration s killing program reveal that there s a part of the American character that is deeply concerned with the unrestrained unchecked exercise of power And there is no greater or clearer manifestation of unchecked power than assuming for oneself the authority to execute an individual outside of a battlefield context Edward Snowden I am immensely grateful that writers like Scahill continue to write books like this for they take huge personal risks in the work they do to make us a informed transparent and ultimately a free population What hit home the hardest during this read was Scahill s demonstration as to how we view and treat people who we suspect as being affiliated with terrorism especially when it comes to carrying out drone strikes. The Assassination complexity theory It is inherently unjust for the US government to treat individuals as terrorists and worse to punish them as terrorists without first providing them due process in the form of judicial review Keeping in mind that this was one of president Obama s concrete positions during his 2007 2008 campaign for election Obama s aggressive expansive use of drones over the course of seven years in multiple predominantly Muslim countries embodies the worst of what made the Bush Cheney war on terror approach so destructive For a president that has implemented a plethora of brave and positive policies drone killings will ultimately be the ugliest aspect of his legacy That being said as this is simply my opinion as a Canadian who actually quite likes Obama please don t take my word for it as I urge you to do your own research to formulate your own conclusions starting with this brilliant piece of work by Scahill If any of this subject matter appeals to you you owe it to yourself to read this book as it will most certainly make you better as a result of In the very least it ll provide some good water cooler banter to flex your inner intellect 256 While the term War on Terror has fallen out of use during the Obama Administration the fact remains that we have found ourselves fighting a war against terrorists for well over ten years And any war is a dirty business and people die in wars from ancient times to the present The Bible is filled with verses which direct the righteous to kill every man and woman child and infant cattle and sheep camel and donkey and all that belongs to them Untold thousands of non combatants died in the indiscriminant fire bombing of Dresden and Tokyo in WW II and at Nagasaki and Hiroshima Today with a war on terror ists not in nation states but in individual groups and cells the style of war has changed and the weapon of choice has become the armed drone And while the drone is superbly precise in most respects no weapon of war is capable of protecting the innocent while targeting the evil And as might be expected the government likes to emphasize the precision and effectiveness of drones in targeting those who are dedicated to destroying us they rarely discuss the negative impacts of drones That s the gap which Jeremy Scahill addresses in his book The Assassination Complex In it he provides a detailed analysis of the ongoing U. Assassination classroom book 1 S drone program combating terrorists in Countries such as Syria Yemen Afghanistan Somalia and Pakistan areas in which the local government is either unwilling or incapable of combating terrorists within its own borders Scahill is clear in his beliefs that the efficiency and effectiveness of the drone program is lower than our government leads us to believe and the number of innocent or unintended victims is much higher than government figures show Also the unintended deaths or injuries to women children or other non combatants caused by a drone strike likely creates terrorists than it kills Scahill is particularly critical of the drone strikes which killed Anwar al Awlaki the American turned terrorist recruiter killed by a drone strike in Yemen Shortly after Awlaki was killed his teenage son Abdulrahman was also killed by a separate drone strike In these cases the victims were both U. The Assassination complexa inc S citizens and under our Constitution all citizens are entitled to due process if they ve committed a crime Scahill favors the position that as a citizen Awlaki should have been captured vs assassinated and then given a fair trial Scahill is critical of Obama in his approval of the drone strikes believing that Obama abused his executive powers and violated the rights of these U. The Assassination complexed definition S citizens I have no access to government documents and therefore I ll trust that Scahill s sources are informed and legitimate and that Scahill s unease with the Bush and Obama Administration s drone warfare programs is valid However Scahill seems to see things as black or white and fails to address possible gray areas regarding drone strikes He does not address the possibility that there may be a counter argument about having to decide between two bad choices For readers interested in examining these gray areas further I recommend Scott Shane s book Objective Troy This book also deals with drone warfare and specifically the targeting of Anwar al Awlaki Sometimes as Scott Shane points out an act like authorizing a drone strike could simultaneously be both morally required AND morally forbidden When there s a person an enemy who has killed before and promises to kill again and you have a chance to stop him police or military personnel will want to do just that If that person is here on U. The Assassination complexly jobs S soil the individual can hopefully be tracked and captured before he can kill again But in lawless territories where capture or extradition is basically impossible without a military assault and placing many lives at risk a dilemma arises The moral imperative is to stop the individual the terrorist before he can carry out his acts to kill many innocent civilians There may be times when a targeted killing may be the only available way to stop the terrorist from striking again And it s making the least evil choice in circumstances such as this which becomes a heavy burden for the person making the choice Scahill is correct that U. The Assassination complexity theory S citizens are guaranteed due process of law under our Fifth Amendment Scahill s analysis stops there and makes it seem as if the constitutional protection guaranteed to Awlaki was simply disregarded for convenience sake But as Scott Shane details in Objective Troy the Department of Justice Office of Legal Council had been tasked with preparing a legal decision on the legalities of a drone attack before the presidential targeting of Awlaki was approved After lengthy analysis the DoJ lawyers determined that a criminal trial was not required citing a 2004 Supreme Court decision involving Yaser Hamdi The lawyer s group at the National Security Council also reviewed that decision to target Awlaki They recognized the unprecedented nature of this case and debated it at length also discussing whether capture of Awlaki would be possible Ultimately all agreed that Awlaki could be targeted Attorney General Holder said that the constitutional due process provision does not necessarily mean court involvement or involve a judicial process But a legal analysis was performed so in his legal opinion for this specific case the Fifth Amendment s requirement was met And it was only after completion of this legal analysis that Obama and his security advisers authorized placing Awlaki judged to be a continued and imminent danger to the U. EBook The Assassination complexion on the kill list So in that light the targeting of Awlaki was far from a cavalier decision by the military or the President Scahill and others certainly may argue with that legal analysis and many have but to omit the fact that these decisions were vetted and reviewed seems to show that Scahill is only telling part of the story Some have also argued that the Awlaki killing in addition to being a possible violation of the Fifth Amendment may also violate the foreign murder statute 18 USC 1119 However according to sources which Scahill does not include Department of Justice lawyers also considered this statute and concluded that the foreign murder statute did not apply The legal opinion concluded that U. Book The Assassination complex community since it was infeasible to capture him alive This is similar to the belief that a policeman on the city streets would be justified in using lethal force against an armed person threatening others when the likelihood of imminent danger to hostages exists Scahill also writes of the killing of Awlaki s son Abdulrahman but does not make it clear that he was not an intended target and may have become involved with an al Qaeda group He s presented as a sweet innocent 16 year old kid only interested in finding his father However others have suggested that in the weeks Abdulrahman spent in Yemen searching for his father he inevitably established contact with Al Qaeda members One Yemeni journalist Abdul Razzaq al Jamal had reported that following his father s death Abdulrahman had decided to cast his lot with Al Qaeda According to al Jamal Abdulrahman had reportedly told an al Qaeda leader I hope to attain martyrdom as my father attained it So it is entirely possible that Abdulrahman was no longer a sweet young man looking for his father but may have already been radicalized by the drone strike which killed his father and was in fact with willingly with a group of Al Qaeda members when killed Other shortcomings of the U. The Assassination complexly jobs S drone program which Scahill point out are harder to argue with Often intelligence on terrorists is obtained from their phones and tracking phones when targeting terrorists can easily lead to mistakes Phones are borrowed and passed along to others and the phone used by a terrorist yesterday could be a phone used by an innocent relative the next So targeting a terrorist s phone without additional assurance of who s using it can lead to errors and deaths of civilians And then there s the question of accepting the collateral damage which comes with a targeted attack For example Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mansour was recently killed in a drone strike in Pakistan while travelling in a taxi to the tribal regions Was the taxi driver also a terrorist or simply an innocent civilian trying to make a living I certainly can t answer that but I think the point that Scahill makes is that those in charge of targeting may not be able to know that answer either In this specific case the family of the taxi driver has lodged a criminal case against the US government Relatives of the driver stated that the attack on the family that hardly earns enough for two meals a day was unjustified and asks who will feed the family now Certainly if the driver was simply an innocent taxi driver and was killed by our action this will hardly endear our country to the people in the region And lastly the precedent set by our drone use can be dangerous In asserting that targeted attacks on anti U. Book The Assassination complex sentence S militants anywhere in the world can be lawful we undermine the international rules we helped craft in the past Following our example abusive regimes around the globe may begin to conduct drone attacks or target anyone they label as a terrorist or a militant What if a Turkish drone targeting Kurdish rebels accidentally kills a U. The Assassination Complex epub.pub S serviceman working with Kurdish troops in Syria What if an Iranian drone kills an Israeli spy in Iraq Will we have the ability to condemn the Chinese if they target a Uighur separatist in the Philippines or the Russians if they poison an enemy of their state while in London What legal recourse or international support would we have if they target someone living in U. The Assassination Complex nonfiction vs S should not carry out lethal strikes that we would object to if another country conducted such a strike under analogous circumstances with a similar rationale 256 Over a period of four and a half months in 2012 US forces used drones and other aircraft to kill 155 people in northeastern Afghanistan Nineteen were jackpots The remaining 136 people were classified as EKIA Enemies Killed in Action The number of jackpots divided by the number of operations gives a 70 percent success rate but it ignores well over a hundred other people killed along the way This means that almost 9 out of 10 people killed in these strikes were not the intended targets. The Assassination Complex book I m going to do my best to summarize this as efficiently as possible I m not strictly in theory a pacifist If there is anyone who deserves to be killed in a military operation it is the extremist with the aspiration to kill those with a different ideology than themselves However The U. Book The Assassination complexity S drone program is a completely unacceptable inhumane dare I say evil method for the disposal of terrorists The idea of drones is attractive One can conduct missions from afar with no risk to the operator s life In theory some of them children and has barricaded himself into a room with his hostages Now imagine the negotiator throws a grenade into the room everyone inside is killed But I killed the bad guy the hostage negotiator argues when he receives criticism There s no telling what he d do if he was still alive The U. Kindle The Assassination complex ptsd But why do so many innocent people die Surely they d avoid killing civilians if at all possible right Precision drone strikes is how they are often described in the media but precision is hardly a virtue of the drone program Instead of targeting people the program targets metadata the GPS location of a SIM card It s easy to see how this could lead to indefinite targeting The location of a phone does not equate to the location of the person who is supposed to own the phone and it does not display the innocent people who may also be near the phone. Nonfiction The Assassination complexity In the age of the aspiring despot Trump people are already nostalgic and dreamy eyed at the memory of Barack Obama s presidency But I m awakening now to the inhumanity of his foreign policy In what kind of war is it acceptable to kill nine innocent people just to kill one enemy The world has its share of evil ISIS Assad Putin Boko Haram Mugabe etc The answer to that evil cannot be a drone strike system that is itself evil that kills the innocent often than the guilty that kills children or leaves children as orphans The only acceptable number of children labelled Enemy Killed in Action is ZERO Otherwise we must begin to look at ourselves as just another source of evil in this world and we wonder why people become radicalized against the U. The Assassination complexa inc S in this endless war on terror 256
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2020 is off to a good start This was very interesting A lot of neat and very disturbing information about the United States drone warfare albeit now over 5 years out of date Well written and a lot of nice graphics and graphs for those of us who enjoy seeing things laid out visually. The Assassination Complex kindle books In particular the afterword by Glen Greenwald of Snowden fame is interesting comparing the drone remote killing policies of the Bush and Obama administrations which considering how heavily Obama campaigned against indiscriminate remote killings during his election drive were incredibly similar I m very interested to do some of my own research and see how things have gone since then. The Assassination complexity gaming The book is basically a collection of articles from The Intercept so a lot of information is repeated several times which is a little annoying and one of the major issues with drone warfare the emotional health of their operators isn t explored at all which I found disappointing as that is something that interests me greatly. The Assassination Complex book Nevertheless a good book certainly worth the read 256 A shocking almost a cliche now expose of the new US policy of executing suspected terrorists by drone strikes This book is actually a compilation of articles published on the website of The Intercept a news organization co founded by the author as well as some new material. The Assassination complexity gaming BTW Jeremy Scahill s last book Dirty Wars won many prestigious awards and was made into a documentary which was nominated for an Academy Award in case you were wondering about his credentials. The Assassination complexcare solutions I think fairly everyone knows that US has used drones or UAVs Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for killing suspected operatives of various terrorist outfits but this book really goes deep into the devilish details Some of the aspects highlighted are legal issues human rights civil liberties international relations and last but not the least the technology and its fallibility. The Assassination Complex booker It is ironic that this book reads like one of Hollywood s terrorism themed thrillers except that it is all factual and amply supported by leaked materials FOIA requested documents and news reports from many independent news outlets and civil rights transparency organizations. The Assassination complexed definition Summing up this is a really important book about so many current issues at stake Prepare yourself to be blown away by facts which will make you question your political affiliations and news sources This book definitely deserves a much much wider readership 256 I hate it here 256 This along with Glenn Greenwald s No Place to Hide is one of the 2 most important books I ve read this year This is a detailed description of the covert US drone war being operated in the middle east and North Africa in particular Rather than slowing down the military and intelligence policies of the Bush Chaney era the drone war has accelerated exponentially under the Obama administration The book details some of the targets history technology and kill chain showing the authorization for strikes going all the way to the president What should American s think about their governments assassination program The truth is that the government is dropping bombs from unmanned planes and there are casualties of this action that include innocent men women and children American citizens have been assassinated by their government without trial The government carries this out because they have the technology to do so and in places where they have no fear of reprisal acting without accountability because it is done in far places like Yemen Somalia Pakistan Iraq Syria and Afghanistan Citizens of the US should know about this war 256 I m not sure what needs to be said here If you ve been living in a cave one not hit by a drone strike or are too easily distracted by mindless pop pap like Pokemon Go you have no excuse not being aware of the current assassination program entrenched in D. Book The Assassination complexion the complete erosion of habeas corpus and the right to a trial let alone a fair trial the abject violation of human rights and international laws the farcical term collateral damage and the utter immorality of such cowardly ways of killing Sadly it can be said that at least a suicide bomber has big balls and sets himself herself directly at the front lines of such terror being the actual agent of carnage That on some mythological level is at least honorable in the classic sense to me Sure civilian targets are soft underbellies but you grab what you can with primitive means Using machines to dispense death from afar is an utter act of cowardice and every citizen in the U. The Assassination complexity synonym S is complicit by proxy whether you vote or don t vote advocate or ignore How government agencies declare its inhuman unpeople becomes sociologically a human condition that must originate in the clan of the cave bear days It s despicable and a deep scar marking the hypocrisy of democracy in the twenty first century Here s the original reporting on this book done by the intrepid journalists at The Intercept a paragon of investigative reporting be appalled and act to change the way things currently are because the U. The Assassination complexcare solutions S is and has historically been since WWII the chief agent of Terror in large swaths of the world Nobody becomes radicalized out of thin blue sky They just get horrifically terminated from it by folks with a dog eared Bible in one hand and a crumpled up Constitution in the other What s these techniques are being used over U:Book The Assassination complex sentence
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