Dream Team: Scahill, Greenwald Investigating NSA Role in US 'Assassination Program'

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/29



Jeremy Scahill (r), a contributor to The Nation magazine and the New York Times best-selling author of "Dirty Wars," said he will be working with Glenn Greenwald (l), the Rio-based journalist who has written stories about U.S. surveillance programs based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Dream Team: Scahill, Greenwald Investigating NSA Role in US 'Assassination Program'
- Jon Queally, staff writer
Published on Sunday, September 29, 2013 by Common Dreams

Though they refused to offer many details on the project, journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald on Saturday night announced that they are now working together on joint investigation on how the U.S. National Security Agency has been involved in the wider overseas "assassination program" run by the Obama administration.

As the Associated Press reports from Rio de Janeiro—where Greenwald and Scahill attended the South American premiere of Dirty Wars, a documentary film based on Scahill's book of the same name—the U.S. journalists "known for their investigations of the United States' government" have now "teamed up to report" on how the vast surveillance network of the NSA operates in conjunction with clandestine operations run by the U.S. military or CIA.

"The connections between war and surveillance are clear. I don't want to give too much away but Glenn and I are working on a project right now that has at its center how the National Security Agency plays a significant, central role in the U.S. assassination program," said Scahill, according to AP, while speaking at a roundtable discussion at the Rio Film Festival.

"There are so many stories that are yet to be published that we hope will produce 'actionable intelligence,' or information that ordinary citizens across the world can use to try to fight for change, to try to confront those in power," Scahill added.

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1. Saturday in LBN forum

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=605589

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2. Hope they say out of small planes

And fast cars that blow to pieces.