cousins. so i was pretty much alone all the time and i grew up with books and comic books and heroes and villains and i kind of grew up optimistic idealistic. i grew up in a christian home i wasn't necessarily too patriotic i was more of the fact. good guys vs bad guys making decisions and doing the right thing i decided to get in the air force. because. i was racking up college debt and i didn't know what else to do so when i was talking to the air force recruiter is like. you know those guys that sit in the operations center for james bond and gather the intelligence he needs to do his mission and i was like yeah i know those guys like a q. and all them and he's like yeah you'll be one of those guys and i was like. it's pretty bad getting into the drone program was weird the introduction is like this

is what we do we kill people and break things that is what our job is ike i worried about it you know i can take can i do this can i actually kill someone could i actually pull the trigger i mean i'm not actually pulling the trigger i'm guiding the missile in but it's essentially the same thing i don't i don't see a difference we typically flew in iraq between eight thousand and twelve thousand feet in the end if you and afghanistan we flew between eighteen and twenty five thousand feet. and depending on atmospherics if it was a completely clear day you would definitely get a good picture depending on how close you were you could probably read the license plate on someone's car we can see something it's simple as people playing soccer game you can see individual players and you can see the ball wife. look the muzzle of the so a little hole in the still a. little worse than that though your. head

i let her deposit a little. meal better but a little warm. it would have been a seven or eight hour trip hold sixteen year old terry very treacherous to write three potential telephone hotspots. and of course on detroit survivor. i it was the first time that the international media the drone victims tried to alice and the general public came together was held in a five star hotel the trouble of the spoken terms of political implication was how they felt and the drone victims spoke about personal story it's. legal what.

can i think i might find out we're going to. learn something about this. stuff. that. it was a bad thing to get the voice of the victims of don't attack out to the general public as i guess the rest of the way not because the main goal we were going to use the media to try and establish who had been killed and also why where and how because of the inaccessibility of the with their stand it's very very hard to compile any kind of credible evidence so evidence that other people see as credible that was part of the e-mail but i use this conference in islamabad we called it a jail guy is a traditional tribal battle that's what people are not ever used to settle their

disputes but i think i think i think i think i think i. have one stage i came from so young boy tyree concedes when i was talking to terry . one of the first things he did was he handed me his cousin's student i.d. card and i looked at it i looked back at terry and i noticed that he was crying. he started to tell me the story of his cousin who'd been killed from a drone strike he'd come to juggle primarily to inform us a little bit more about what happened to his cousin and to people in his local village and find out how to stop mccain and we sat together all day we ate together at lunch time we left together we became friends very close stream intelligence and only to be around he had no sense of humor he was fascinated by photography and intrigued by western music mentioning artists and one that sprang to mind was maybe

gaga starts to talk about drone strikes in his village how he was unable to sleep at nights he was scarce he was worried about his family his friends whose traumatized he wanted to talk about how he was affected by drone attacks and basically to give the message that the people of possessed and want justice against the killings of innocent civilians under john attack that are operated by the u.s. all right thank you thank you. thank you thank you so. we're. going to say. oh. thank. you thank. you thank. you i. was

pretty good either. and the people who are gathered that adopted a resolution condemning strikes i think. the outcome of the joker was a big success because it allowed people to come together to listen to stories and come to a common resolution. then we went to get the jury rally and tariq aziz traveled there with us. travel towards the rally and tariq sat next to me he seemed relaxed he was walking with his friends terry and everybody else got out and they went to the rally. i. i happen to like tiny's came to support a giant rally on sunday the protest against the united states joining back in office not. i i i

i i i i. i i i i i do back tariq aziz and we are the attendees returned to their homes the richard money your future here's your ship you see you were. here somebody was your home but on what. should be a mission that i look at a thing look at those saved by the by image might i side with the. that's got to get out those window into the going to order and it would want to know that i'm so good. i'm not actually. going to baghdad.

this time but i was coming in and i mean i'm a bit sad to messy about it causes. and you stand on. your front. so you just. see so that in the sun out in the cinema stuff and so do most. of the newcomers that have taken the day. to this day that i go to called. funny even though you know i went out to very few days nature after i'd gone right there and into the number one

and i thought i was that way when we found out he had been tough on cold days off of that year i received e-mails from shows not. simply said tariq as the heading and i opened it instantly. to my shock i found out tariq being murdered by drawing strike and that was a shock move like oh i was it possible we were there was he was he doing in this late completely unbelievable moment that others were not. going to. get that accused of the weatherly going to. get on that i.v. . what are they gonna we wouldn't mind initial thoughts were this wasn't happening this was just a dream we didn't think that the sixteen year old kid who wanted to talk about football would be killed in a drone attack the same week that we'd met him. why did it happen why was

terri killed. if the u.s. had any information that tara cozies was part of a criminal organization was planning to carry out attacks states and our federal law enforcement agents she had been working with the authorities in pakistan to arrest him and one reason to stop the question why the government was not able to arrest or you can question him this is islam by talking once the capital of the country so palatial is a brilliant people i'm going to. juggle with a group public events to listen to big talent has asked times why it is an open event terry because ease was plainly visible to hundreds and hundreds of people. to talk with reporters everything about him that the authorities could have wanted to know about his location and about his recent activities were known to the united states. certainly extremely easy for them to approach him sit down and talk to him

or for that matter put him in jail but instead the cia chose to go and kill them without giving him the opportunity to give his side of whatever had his that they thought that he had done this no evidence there whatsoever and they're giving him no no ideas that is no judge and there's no jury. are perfect as always to capture if we can because we can gather intelligence but a lot of the terrorist networks that target the united states the most dangerous ones operate in very remote regions and it's very difficult to capture them but what we can discern from the pattern of strikes is that essentially pakistan's been declared a no captures around that automatically captures not considered feasible if you just look at the numbers there have been dramatically more people killed in recent years that have been captured they've you know killed maybe three to three to four thousand people in the. targeted killings. and they've captured

a handful. of . the problem it was terrible they come up very hard to make a plan to get along here is a place that we ever had sex with her make their lives let's play. a. little. bit let's. play a. little a. little please. please. look.

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live live. crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. to live. there are no cia agents in reserve stuff so they rely on local people and this is where the fundamental news is tease people who are looking for you for money and that reliance is utterly misplaced and what you see and terex case and it just

pains me to say that you know without any real room for dispute that there was someone in that room when we were having our who was an informant for the u.s. intelligence services and that person picked out tarik i can tell you as a matter of fact the target was not an extremist and the way you know what intelligence they relied on to kill someone is what they released immediately after the killing and in that case they said war militants were killed and of course we know that two kids were killed. that's how it happened. i asked the cia about the strike and their response was on that day no child was killed in fact the adult males for supporting this so attention network so despite all of these technological assets and human assets or not there we don't know and i think

there is a lot of room for error. killing terri who was clearly breaking the law effects it was further than it was just murder to wreak aziz was one of almost three hundred children killed why are these children being killed this is a targeted focused effort at people who are on a list of active terrorists the killing of treat disease has to call into question the credibility of the government's kill list methodology the vast majority of the strikes here are against people whose identity is the government doesn't know we do not know where targeted killings are authorized to be used we do not know the specific identities of people who have been killed the constitution empowers the president to protect the nation from any imminent threat of attack so how can to rica's ease a sixteen year old boy possibly meet that definition of imminent threat the justice department has defined an imminent threat based not on whether the threat is

specific and immediate which is what imminent means so that people pose imminent threats regardless of whether they're actually engaged in any ongoing media attack against the united states we have a responsibility to defend this country and that's what we're doing killing terry as it made us any safer it's taken away young boys. it's destroyed a family in a community under the interpretations we've heard from the administration and members of congress drone strikes could go on indefinitely against enemies that keep morphing into new enemies but killing should be the exception not the rule to ricos he should never have died the u.s. should not have been using military force to attack innocent civilians let alone children. i would question a policy that says it is a just a minute and even sensible to assassinate

a sixteen year old boy he was trying to be part of the constructive way forward. there's two guys in front and guy in the rear. no walking up this path and. two guys in front are discussing like you can see them having a nap conversation they've got something slung over their shoulders which look to be. weapons mountainous portions of afghanistan are not so unsimilar from the mountainous regions of montana and seeing people with guns walking around the back in a stand. people are walking with guns and mountains of montana but as soon as we get eyes on him immediately confirmed are weapons confirm your clear target so place the target at their feet and be it missiles away and getting

off three of them. but the guy in the back it ends up cutting his leg off above the knee and severing his for more artery. and he's rolling around he's holding it and he says like rowing around but you can see where is leg is missing in the blood is spurting out in landing on the ground and it's cooling it's hot it's a hot pool of blood and cooling and we keep our eyes on in. watch the guy become the same colors the ground that he pled out on. i can almost see is facial expression it was. a go see is mouth open in crying out. maybe cursed. or maybe he asked. for forgiveness for. his last thoughts were but it wasn't it wasn't pretty whatever

it was it was shock and trauma were probably ringing in he was bleeding out and he was. in agony. i didn't know how to react no one teaches you how to react they teach you how to do it. there's no big nor ignore the reaction part. i wished i never contributed further to that. for any struggle to take there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured the highest standard we can say. the vast majority of those killed in drone strikes. over ninety eight percent have not been high value targets.

of signature strikes make indiscriminate killing you know a policy what they end up with this is what i described earlier the signature strikes back to a greater reliance on these signature strikes a signature strike is a drone strike that isn't based on the identity of the target i obtained. classified u.s. intelligence reports on drone strikes what the documents reveal are the way that signature strikes are put together and these are strikes against people who fit in fit the signature of what the u.s. government says is a terrorist maybe they are walking into the compound with guns maybe they're getting in trucks and they're moving to the afghan border and drone operators seated thousands of miles away from the area affected are looking at video feeds assessing those video feeds and based on that making decisions about whether or not someone who's walking through the community is a suspected terrorist you conclude on the basis of the behavior that they are

a terrorist and you kill them. in number of cases that i looked at the cia wasn't sure who they were hitting. the agency became convinced that it had gotten so good at watching from above that it could distinguish different groups it could distinguish whether a terrorist leader was at a certain location but there is room for a lot of misunderstanding when you're doing something like conduct. signature strikes a drone strike is only as good as the intelligence that is behind the actual strike anyone who's worked in intelligence knows that intelligence doesn't quote unquote prove anything it's not evidence so drones hit what they aim to hit but if they're aimed at the wrong people then civilians are killed former u.s. ambassador cameron munter had said that one man's combatant was another man's chump

who went to a meeting when leon panetta was director of the cia somebody memorably said if he if leon sees a few guys doing jumping jacks on the ground if things that's a terrorist training camp classified documents suggest u.s. officials don't always know exactly how many or who they're killing they don't always have precise side id a parent a targeting of people whose identity is not known they may not be as precise as many u.s. officials claim as soon as those signature starts begin we start to see another steep escalation in civilian casualties so that's what happens when success stories go wrong numbers of people down because they don't. who is being killed or most of the drone strikes. on march seventeenth two thousand and eleven the target was held out of help to resolve a dispute over a chromite mine. if there is

a feud getting out of hand. and everyone has a chance to speak it really is a democracy and that is a mechanism to make sure they do stability in society. which i listen up with like a subset a must do was an awesome ulick i well as they got. there what a marriage with a lot of great look. they have. the jurga in an open space in a bus depot in broad daylight tribal elders informed the pakistani military brig did job it was in command of the brigade on the border so he is a key component of the brigadier knew about the jew got ten days in advance his own army camp was ten kilometers from the site of the jirga so this was an open public event that pretty much everyone in the community and surrounding area you're

about. the target begins in the morning at about ten o'clock and after that point and it's your cells. the devil must get you and i would buzz among the muslims but i was about to get active for minutes alone with lenders dramas later i was when those steps would go up above the windows social. there's smoke and debris and chaos it was a huge explorers of the people in the shop and the nearby. bliss ironically. but if you don't share the news or they were fresh from isaac is the most bloody one how does a move the comedian michelle walk the modem then is that the demo depends are one

of them a plot a bundle. they move a lot of which are more got them set up or there's more of a label how it's a person going to a national i'm a horrible deluded let's try to share how to meet us so you will build. up some of what is really a strain of them. but that it is that i like is that from go the other road i would be a professional go where there's an artist that leap that was the mark of a bottom of the.

loss of poor leaders on a single day it's devastating for them. it's devastating in terms of leadership it's devastating in terms of the moral compass instead of sitting in economic terms as well. doesn't mean about oh you didn't look son will probably get a good kick in a store the hulk you mustn't ever have. the hulk or that f.a. out of the party because i don't like all the cuts you have had the what a lucky you electrons lot of this drone strike is coming at the end of a series of drone strikes it's feeding into the sense of no one is safe no way soon nothing is safe even a jewel got the most cherished the most treasured institution of the tribal areas so we cannot even sit down and resolve an issue that is not safe any. three months after forty two civilians started john brennan stood up and said nearly for the past year there hasn't been a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency perception of

the capabilities with unable to develop high level far. tell the american public that there have been no civilian casualties. seriously because the try to play. people are going to be good news for you. for the story changing every minute. and. somehow make no law no a. mile or less like that he. was saying all. these cases he has to meet let's do. some things for nothing and. just so we can and it's just. it's

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