In his speech at the National Defense University last May, President Obama declared that “before any strike is taken, there must be near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured – the highest standard we can set.” He added that, “by narrowly targeting our action against those who want to kill us and not the people they hide among, we are choosing the course of action least likely to result in the loss of innocent life.”
But the increased reliance on phone tracking and other fallible surveillance tactics suggests that the opposite is true.The Intercept
The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program
Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald
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Measures and countermeasures. Now since they know that they are being monitored and they can control when and where the US strikes, they can setup and use the US to take out their enemies and also cause the US to lose support by striking innocent civilians with media ready and standing by to take pictures.
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