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marmar

(77,056 posts)
Mon Feb 10, 2014, 03:47 PM Feb 2014

Death By Metadata: Jeremy Scahill & Glenn Greenwald Reveal NSA Role in Assassinations Overseas


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Published on Feb 10, 2014

http://www.democracynow.org - In the first exposé for their new venture, First Look Media's digital journal The Intercept, investigative journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald reveal the National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligence, as the primary method to locate targets for lethal drone strikes. The NSA identifies targets based on controversial metadata analysis and cell-phone tracking technologies, an unreliable tactic that has resulted in the deaths of innocent and unidentified people. The United States has reportedly carried out drone strikes without knowing whether the individual in possession of a tracked cell phone or SIM card is in fact the intended target of the strike. Scahill and Greenwald join us to discuss their report and the launch of their media project.


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Death By Metadata: Jeremy Scahill & Glenn Greenwald Reveal NSA Role in Assassinations Overseas (Original Post) marmar Feb 2014 OP
I'm sure the assassins will be brought to justice in law-abiding America. Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2014 #1
 

Tierra_y_Libertad

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1. I'm sure the assassins will be brought to justice in law-abiding America.
Mon Feb 10, 2014, 03:52 PM
Feb 2014

Just like the CIA torturers were.

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