The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret

The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program

â€œA searing, facts-driven indictment of Americaâ€™s drone wars and their implications for US democracy and foreign policy. A must-read for concerned citizensâ€ (Library Journal, starred review) from bestselling author Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues at the investigative website The Intercept.

Drones are a tool, not a policy. The policy is assassination. But drone strikes often kill people other than the intended target. These deaths, which have included women and children, dwarf the number of actual combatants who have been assassinated by drones. They have generated anger toward the United States among foreign populations and have even become a recruiting tool for jihadists.

The first drone strike outside a declared war zone was conducted more than twelve years ago, but it was not until May 2013 that the White House released a set of standards and procedures for conducting such strikes. However, there was no explanation of the internal process used to determine whether a suspect should be killed without being indicted or tried, even if that suspect is an American citizen. The implicit message of the Obama administration has been: Trust, but donâ€™t verify.

The Assassination Complex reveals stunning details of the governmentâ€™s secretive drone warfare program based on documents supplied by a confidential source in the intelligence community. These documents make it possible to begin the long-overdue debate about the policy of drone warfare and how it is conducted. The Assassination Complex allows us to understand at last the circumstances under which the US government grants itself the right to sentence individuals to death without the established checks and balances of arrest, trial, and appealâ€”â€œreaders will be left in no doubt that drone warfare affronts morality and the Constitutionâ€ (Kirkus Reviews).
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-05-03
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-05-03
Format	Kindle eBook

The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program

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