The assassination complex : inside the government's secret drone warfare program

Book 2016

The "author and his colleagues at the investigative website, The Intercept, expose stunning new details about America's secret assassination policy"--NoveList.

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ISBN:

9781501144134
1501144138

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition

Description:

xviii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Intercept

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Preface / Betsy Reed
Foreword: Elected by circumstance / Edward Snowden
The drone legacy / Jeremy Scahill
Death and the watchlist / Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux
Why I leaked the watchlist documents / Anonymous
Find, fix, finish / Jeremy Scahill
The kill chain / Cora Currier
The heart of the drone maze / Jeremy Scahill
Target Africa / Nick Turse
Death by metadata / Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald
Firing blind / Cora Currier and Peter Maass
Stingrays at home / Jeremy Scahill and Margot Williams
The life and death of Objective Peckham / Ryan Gallagher
Manhunting in the Hindu Kush / Ryan Devereaux
Afterword: War without end / Glenn Greenwald

LCCN:

2016001115

Control Number:

1660299

Other Authors:

Gallagher, Ryan (Journalist), author
Greenwald, Glenn, author
Snowden, Edward J., 1983- author
Williams, Margot, author

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