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in new york, jeremy scahill joins us.ok andhor of the central figure of the film, "dirty wars: the world is a battlefield." we go first to nasser al-awlaki in yemen. i want to begin by asking you to respond to president obama. in may, president obama delivered the first major counterterrorism address of a second term. i want to turn to his comments on targeted killings, specifically the case of your son, a u.s. citizen anwar al awlaki. the war against america and it is actively plotting to kill u.s. citizens. and when neither the united states nor our partners are in any position to capture him before he carries out a plot, his citizenship sent no more serve as a shield and a sniper shooting down of an innocent crash to be protected from a swat team. was.is to anwar awlaki he was continuously trying to kill people. he helped oversee the 2010 plot to detonate explosives onto the u.s. bound cargo airplanes. he was involved in planning to blow up an airliner in 2009. bombere christmas day went to yemen in 2009, al- awlaki's

>> that was my friend, jeremy scahill in somalia talking to a somalia warlord now a u.s. partner in the war on terror, a clip from the exceptional documentary "dirty wars" airs tomorrow, directed and produced by jeremy and documents the war on terror an its many casualties.

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>> that was my friend, jeremy scahill in somalia talking to a somali warlord who is now u.s. from the exceptional documentary "dirty wars" airs tomorrow, directed and produced by jeremy. the film documents the reality of the american war on terror and its many, many, many casualties. it is arguably the most comprehensive look at the secret war on terror that exists, a war that we continue to fight across the globe, day-by-day, piece-by-piece is being dragged to the light. the latest comes from an msnbc news report exactly how much the cia knows about the people it kills. >> nbc news has examined classified documents detailing 114 drone strikes in pakistan in 2010 and '11. locations, death tolls, alleged terrorist affiliations. they also reveal what u.s. officials don't know, like how many killed, between seven and 10 in one strike, 20 to 22 in another. u.s. officials do seem certain they almost never kill civilians. in those 114 strikes, only one acknowledged civilian casualty. what's more, about a quarter of those killed are described generically, as quote other militants. >

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i have her on speed dial. >>> in the new film "dirty wars" jeremy scahill chronicles his search for thehind america's ever-expanding war on terror. that story, which plays out in drone strikes and night raids by elite special forces on distant battlefields, takes scahill from iraq and afghanistan to dwremen and somalia. much of the film focuses on the increasing use of the joint special operations command, or jsoc. the most covert unit in the u.s. military. it operates in the shadows of war and remained virtually unknown to the american public until the raid on osama bin laden's compound. which was carried out by a jsoc unit known as s.e.a.l. team 6. >> nato claimed that the women killed in guard ez were the victim of honor killings. bound and gagged by their own families. you saw the u.s. forces take the bullets out of the body? i believed the family. but that wasn't enough. for me, or anyone else. who were these men that stormed into daoud's home? and why would they go to such horrifying lengths to cover up their actions? >> the elite force created in 1980 as an elite hostage rescue t

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this is made in your name but in his new book "dirty wars", jeremy scahill tells a story how obama came to wield the power in covert government forces carried out the killing in with these secret operations mean for in our democracy. he is the best selling author of blackwater and twice won the coveted award for reporting and the national security correspondent for the nation magazine. he is also a bright teen fellow from afghanistan and iraq and somalia and the former yugoslavia and the screenwriter and voice of the word winning documentary "dirty wars" the world is a battlefield" which comes out in philadelphia on june june 21st and anticipation we will run the trailer of the event right now. and i mean movie. [laughter] >> i got a strange phone call someone wasn't reaching out close to the heart of the in the force spee there are hundreds of covert operations. multiple causes. >> it is hard to say when the story began. this was supposed to be the front line of the war on tear. but i knew i was missing the story. there was another war hidden in the shadows. a nightmare. >> the two men

investigative journalist and producer and subject of this award winning documentary "dirty war" jeremy scahillpens this friday. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> let's talk about somalia and other countries. outside of afghanistan and iraq, how many other countries do we have these operations going in and what are the wars if not authorized. >> i think they are happening in several dozen countries. there are special forces deployed in 75 to a hundred countries around the world on any given day. a lot of what they are doing is working with other countries, training exercises, and cases that i think are important for us to focus is is when they are involved with kinetic operations. and unilateral operations. when they are doing targeted kill operations or snatch and grab operations in countries americanes have given them and in other cases just men they suspect are islamic radicals. >> i really admire your work. there is criticism and controversy warranted, in my opinion, over the so-called kill capture program for failing to capture as often as it kills. you've said that, for example,

inspector general of the pentagon that looked at the special operations command, which is the jeremy scahillas been writing about, the most secretive part of the u.s. military doing rates all over the world. they found a lot of jsoc and special operations contractors were doing inherently governmental work, in other words, doing things by law should only be done by the government. at that level, there is very loose oversight. i think we need to look as a country and the government certainly needs to do this and so does congress, you know, it is fine to buy technology from corporations if they need it, but using corporations to fill your ranks, to provide personnel, i mean, you go to these agencies and it is that exactly like this but it is very much like a nascar race where they have corporate logos all over themselves. that is what is like inside the nsa. we need to have the private sector doing all this analysis? i think that is very critical question to be asked. do we want to have private corporations at the highest levels of? if that is -- that is something i believe congress should rea

>> jeremy scahill, the film is called "dirty wars." if it comes to a city near you, see it. whatever you think about the president or war on terror, you have to see it. that is all for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" is next. >> good evening. did you spend any time reading or sending any e-mail today? did you google anything or check your account on yahoo? you were not alone. tonight recording on the existing of a previously unreported top secret government spying program. the national security administration and the fbi reportedly tapping directly into the servers of the biggest internet companies in the world. essentially putting government taps deep inside the machinery that hosts hundreds of millions of american e-mail accounts and online storage and social media and communications. if this sounds familiar, you're mistaken. this is new. this new secret spying program is entirely different for example from the phone records spying program that was revealed last night by "the guardian" the program that has the government storing records of past phone calls allowing

go to democracynow.org to see our 2008 interview with samantha power as a lesser debate with jeremy scahill about kosovo, iraq sanctions, and interventionism. police in turkey are continuing a crackdown on mass anti- government protests. on wednesday, police fired teargas and water cannons at a large crowd rallying in the capital. at least 3300 people i've been arrested in five days of protests. one turkish activists of the protesters are undeterred. >> today we have the third person who was killed. there are more than 2000 people who were injured, when did, and so on. but the number of attendees, the number of people taking part in this huge thing does not get less at all. nobody is afraid anymore. >> you can go to democracynow.org for the report fire -- out from inside taksim square. the u.s. and venezuela have launched a new bid to improve ties with the most high-level meeting in months. on wednesday, secretary of state john kerry sat down with the venezuelan foreign minister at a summit in guatemala. john kerry said the talks would continue. >> we agreed today, both of us, that venezuel

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. >> with us now, jeremy scahill, author of the book "dirty wars, the world is a battlefield" and co-writeruvel. what do you think about the susan right nomination? chuck said rice is more of an interventionalist. >> an interventionalist? >> an interventionist more and thou -- than others. >> our foreign policy has been defined as a battle between liberal interventionists. people like samantha powers did support the war in iraq, which in my mind is one of the great disasters of american national security. >> and teamed up with the conservative interventionists, mccain and -- >> i think susan rice has not had a distinguished career. i think it's interesting because senator john kerry now, our secretary of state, has been working very hard, in my mind, to what is the only possible outcome to this humanitarian disaster in syria, which is a political, plocdiplomatic, not >> john kerry has been more of an interventionist too, hasn't he? >> he supported the war in iraq. he said the other day the united states has come plate to diplomacy, which was an implicit underreported rebuke to the obama adm