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Jeremy Scahill: The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
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Jeremy Scahill: The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program
Major revelations about the US governments drone program bestselling author Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues at the investigative website The Intercept expose stunning new details about Americas secret assassination policy.

When the US government discusses drone strikes publicly, it offers assurances that such operations are a more precise alternative to troops on the ground and are authorized only when an imminent threat is present and there is near certainty that the intended target will be killed. The implicit message on drone strikes from the Obama administration has been trust, but don't verify.

The online magazine The Intercept exploded this secrecy when it 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. Whether through the use of drones, night raids, or new platforms yet to be employed, these documents show assassination to be central to US counterterrorism policy.

The classified documents reveal that Washington's fourteen-year targeted killing campaign suffers from an over-reliance on flawed signals intelligence, an apparently incalculable civilian toll, and an inability to extract potentially valuable intelligence from terror suspects. This campaign, carried out by two presidents through four presidential terms, has been deliberately obscured from the public and insulated from democratic debate. 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.

The book will include original contributions from Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden.

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First Congregational Church of Berkeley (View)
2345 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
United States

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