scott shane joins us now from washington, d.c.is also author of a new book "objective troy: a terrorist, a , president, and the rise of the drone." it is about the first american to liberally killed in a drone strike, anwar al-awlaki. the book just won the 2016 lionel gelber prize. welcome to democracy now! let's start with this two-part series. clinton spar power and the dictators fall. talk about hillary clinton as secretary of state and how she led the charge or what she advised president obama in libya. ago, thereve years was a question about what to do as gaddafi's forces approached benghazi. europeans in the arab league were calling for action. no one really knew what the outcome would be, but there was certainly a very serious threat to a large number of civilians in benghazi. the u.s. was still involved in two big wars. the sort of heavyweights in the obama administration were against getting involved -- robert gates the defensive protect him and joe biden the vice president, tom donnellan, the national security advisor. a

but, writes joe becker and scott shane in the "new york times," some state department officials have complain to the white house that the criteria used by the cia, sees three guys doing jumping jacks -- i'm sorry -- the signature for identifying a terrorist signature were too lax. the joke was when the cia sees three guys doing jumping jacks the agency thinks it's a terrorist training camp. many loading a truck with fertilizer could be bombmakers but they also might be farmers. as the news broke on march 7th , 2016, that u.s. drone strikes had killed 150 people in somalia, the white house announced it will reveal for the first time the number of people killed by drones and manned airstrikes outside areas of active hostilities. since 2009. the tallies will include civilian deaths. this is a critical first step toward much-needed transparency but it will not go far enough. the obama administration has been lying for years about how many deaths result from its drone strikes and manned bombers. in 2011, john brennan falsely claimed that no civilians had been killed in drone strikes in ne