A little quote of honesty from Barack Husein "Drone-bama" Obama, all but hidden inside 700 pages of crap: ‘Killing for optics’? Obama claims he ‘took no joy’ in drone strikes, but ordered them to avoid looking ‘soft on terrorism’ https://www.rt.com/usa/507180-obama-drone-strikes-book-emanuel/ Former US President Barack Obama has sparked an anti-war backlash after saying in his new memoir he “took no joy” in ordering deadly drone strikes, reasoning that his administration “couldn't afford to look soft on terrorism.” … This didn’t age well.Obama and Biden promised to end the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.Instead, they expanded Bush’s wars from 2 to 7, and increased drone strikes ten fold. https://t.co/84zLcbApBD — Sarah Abdallah (@sahouraxo) November 18, 2020 … The ‘Drone Papers’ leak in 2015 revealed that, at least during one period, 90 percent of US drone strike victims were“not the intended targets.” … On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 11:57:20PM -0400, Steve Kinney wrote:
On 5/11/19 12:16 AM, Razer wrote:
A former US intel analyst was arrested Thursday under the Espionage Act. He allegedly leaked dox about the US Drone War program. Daniel Hale faces up to 50 yrs in prison, accused of disclosing 11 top secret/secret documents to a reporter.
If this took place before The Intercept burned Reality Winner, shame on The Intercept. If it took place after, shame on the leaker.
I saw a story indicating that prior to publishing the material submitted by Ms. Winner, The Intercept called the Feds to verify that the zip code on the package matched the facility their source told them it came from. Not certain this actually happened - but given what came next I do not doubt it.
The Intercept published at least one high quality scan of a document sent by Ms. Winner, with the printer's watermarks intact: This told world + Feds the printer's serial number, and time the document was printed. When I read about that, I went to The Intercp's site and downloaded the image in question. I bumped up the contrast and tweaked its colors a bit: Viola, the repeating watermark pattern jumped right out.
Starting on the date The Intecept openly and publicly burned Ms. Winner - whether through shocking ignorance and negligence, or by design - anyone who sends them 'dangerous documents' has no one to blame but themselves the first morning they wake up in a Federal prison.
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