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“Based on his experience, he has come to believe that the drone program amounts to little more than death by unreliable metadata. "People get hung up that there's a targeted list of people," he said. "It's really like we're targeting a cell phone. We're not going after people – we're going after their phones, in the hopes that the person on the other end of that missile is the bad guy.”

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Jeremy Scahill
Jeremy Scahill

Jeremy Scahill is an American journalist and editor known for his reporting on global military operations and intelligence agencies. Born on October 18, 1974, he has worked as a reporter for The Nation magazine and gained widespread attention for his investigative reporting in the book 'Blackwater'. more

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