How the NSA Helps the US Assassinate (Greenwald / Scahill)

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85. Thanks to world renowned and respected Journalists, like Jeremy Schahill, the Secret Drone program

was exposed, although even Schahill admits that what he and others exposed, due to his inside contacts, his real investigative journalism like actually spending time at the scenes of the crimes, there is a lot more to be exposed.

Seymor Hersch, among other investigative journalists around the country and the world, have credited the few real journalists, who actually still do the work of a journalist not just post their opinions on the internet, with the exposure of what he titled 'American's Dirty War'.

I have been following their work for over ten years now, and I KNOW for a FACT that they could not get anyone to acknowledge the extent of the use of drones to kill people, until about two years ago when even MSM reporters were forced to begin to ask the questions real journalists had been asking for years.

Dirty Wars



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ABOUT THE BOOK:

In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater, takes us inside America’s new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture, or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies.

Drawn from the ranks of the Navy SEALs, Delta Force, former Blackwater and other private security contractors, the CIA’s Special Activities Division, and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), these elite soldiers operate worldwide, with thousands of secret commandos working in more than one hundred countries. Funded through “black budgets,” Special Operations Forces conduct missions in denied areas, engage in targeted killings, snatch and grab individuals, and direct drone, AC-130, and cruise missile strikes. While the Bush administration deployed these ghost militias, President Barack Obama has expanded their operations and given them new scope and legitimacy.

Dirty Wars follows the consequences of the declaration that “the world is a battlefield,” as Scahill uncovers the most important foreign policy story of our time. From Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia, and beyond, Scahill reports from the frontlines in this high-stakes investigation and explores the depths of America’s global killing machine. He goes beneath the surface of America’s covert wars, conducted in the shadows, outside the range of the press, without effective congressional oversight or public debate. And, based on unprecedented access, Scahill tells the chilling story of an American citizen marked for assassination by his own government.

As US leaders draw the country deeper into conflicts across the globe, setting the world stage for enormous destabilization and blowback, Americans are not only at greater risk — we are changing as a nation. Scahill unmasks the shadow warriors who prosecute these secret wars and puts a human face on the casualties of unaccountable violence that is now official policy: victims of night raids, secret prisons cruise missile attacks and drone strikes, and whole classes of people branded as “suspected militants.” Through his brave reporting, he exposes the true nature of the dirty wars the United States government struggles to keep hidden.


And from of the most credible and knowledgeable reporters and students of our SECRET WARS, praise for one of today's best investigative journalists:

“There is no journalist in America, in the world, who has reported on what the war on terror actually looks like under the Obama administration better than ... Jeremy Scahill. His amazing, comprehensive chronicle of the Obama war on terror [is] the new book Dirty Wars.. .. A film, which is incredible and a must-see, of the same name will be in theaters in early June. Dirty Wars is probably the most comprehensive account to date of what America’s global battlefield looks like, a battlefield that was constructed with each new mission and the deployment of special forces and each new drone strike and each new frontier, the product of hundreds of individual decisions made under duress in reaction to an uncertain world that now add up to a global battlefield without frontlines or clearly marked boundaries… This book is an unbelievable accomplishment. The movie is an incredible accomplishment ... Whatever your politics, you should read this book. It is incredibly carefully reported book. People who come to this book expecting a polemic, I think will be surprised to a find a book that really in many ways lets the facts speak for themselves. What this book does is show a side of our unending wars that we haven’t seen. ... I think every member of Congress should read this book.”

Chris Hayes, All In, MSNBC


“Dirty Wars is not politically correct. It is not a history of the last decade as seen from inside the White House, or from the pages of the New York Times and Washington Post. Scahill’s book takes us inside Dick Cheney’s famed ‘dark side’ and tells us, with convincing detail and much new information, what has been done in the name of America since 9/11.”

Seymour Hersh


“Dirty Wars is the most thorough and authoritative history I’ve read yet of the causes and consequences of America’s post 9/11 conflation of war and national security. I know of no other journalist who could have written it: For over a decade, Scahill has visited the war zones, overt and covert; interviewed the soldiers, spooks, jihadists, and victims; and seen with his own eyes the fruits of America’s bipartisan war fever. He risked his life many times over to write this book, and the result is a masterpiece of insight, journalism, and true patriotism.”

Barry Eisler, novelist and former operative in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations

The Drone War as they call it, has been and still is being conducted in secret, and the only reason we know anything about it at all is because of the rare few people who understand that journalism is not about trying to protect the government, it is about finding out facts, sometimes putting your life on the line, and then informing the public, no matter what politician's reputation may be at stake. It is about the COUNTRY.

Your attempt to dismiss the work of these journalists is sad. I will take their reporting, their credentials over anything someone who has FORGOTTEN how secret the Drone was has been until their work forced it out into the open, at least some of it.