Jeremy Scahill on the US’s Global Assassination Program – EXTENDED INTERVIEW

FEATURING JEREMY SCAHILL – The Intercept, the online investigative news site founded by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill, last fall, published The Drone Papers, which were a series of classified slides leaked to them by an anonymous whistleblower. The papers detailed for the first time how individuals are determined by the military to be designated for death by unmanned drone bombings, and how the so-called kill list is personally overseen by President Obama. The bombshell revelations are detailed in a new book overseen by Jeremy Scahill called The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program. The book includes chapters by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as well as the unnamed source of the Drone Papers, and other journalists with the Intercept who analyzed the papers.

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Jeremy Scahill, award winning investigative journalist and war correspondent, and one of the founding editors of TheIntercept.com, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield which was also the basis of a documentary by the same name. His new book is called The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program.