Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars was live streaming at noon today courtesy of New America®. New America welcomed author Chris Woods for a discussion on the secret history of armed drone use in the United States and the use of drones in today’s covert targeted killing project.
To access the issue brief, please click HERE. Then Senate Intelligence Committee chair, Senator Dianne Feinstein, in early 2013 said:
...for the past several years, this committee has done significant oversight of the government's conduct of targeted strikes, and the figures we have obtained from the executive branch, which we have done our utmost to verify, confirm that the number of civilian casualties that have resulted from such strikes each year has typically been in the single digits.
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Should the U.S. rethink its drone policy?
"Yes" writes Emily Schneider @emilydsch who works for @FP_SouthAsia doing the job of an assistant editor. Schneider can be found @NewAmerica in the International Security Program of the New America Foundation.
Schneider's piece for @usnews appeared April 29, 2015: "The U.S. Can Be a Better Leader on Drone Policy"
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Related panel: April 30, 2015 (video) Reporting Under Fear w/ CNN's Peter Bergen, The SAIS Observer note: SAIS is School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. or watch with better sound quality here This event inaugurates the "First Draft of History" series with CNN's Peter Bergen, globetrotting journalists, and The SAIS Observer.
Central to a free society is a free press, and to stay informed, we often rely on journalists and foreign correspondents who risk their safety -- sometimes their lives -- to shine high beams on the front lines of chaos, injustice, and repression. Learn from the stories of panelists including Peter Bergen, Pamela Constable, Raza Rumi, Allison Shelly, Frank Smyth, and J.S. Tissainayagam, who have reported in dangerous places across the world -- Afghanistan, Colombia, Haiti, Iraq, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, and Turkey. They discuss an era of 'Reporting Under Fear', focusing on the increasing risks journalists take to inform, and how they can adapt to ensure light continues to shine on important untold stories.
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