amy: that was a new video produced by the intercept featuring jeremy scahill talking about his sweepingnew investigative project "empire politician" about joe biden's foreign policy record over the half-century. jeremy joins us after the break. ♪♪ [music break] amy: dar williams "the mercy of the fallen." this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i am amy goodman with juan gonzalez. you can sign up for our daily news digest email by texting democracynow -- one word, no space -- to 66866 today. as president biden prepares to address a joint session of congress, we are looking today at biden's foreign policy record -- both in his first 99 days in office and over the past five decades. we are joined by jeremy scahill, co-founder of the intercept where he's a senior correspondent and editor-at-large. jeremy is also the host of the podcast "intercepted." he has just launched a new remarkable project titled "empire politician: a half-century of joe biden's stances on war, militarism, and the cia." jeremy is the author of several books, including "blackwater: the rise of

shared 8 secret and 3 top secret documents with the journalist believed to be the intercepts jeremy scahill and that the documents detailed in the protocol for ordering drone strikes and shed light on civilian casualties an internal military debates over the accuracy of intelligence in response to hill's indictment betsy reid the editor in chief of the intercept told the media quote these documents detailed a secret unacceptable process for targeting and killing people around the world including u.s. citizens all through drone strikes they are of vital public importance and activity related to their disclosure is protected by the 1st amendment. you know under the rules we were taught as children ms reed statement would be true but in today's united states of america as adults it appears that national security and secret assassinations hold a higher honor than justice truth and morality and that my friends is why we are always watching. what's going on a cd. player so you can see the prizes you always stay see always. great to see this least systemic deception show which i would put just as.

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