US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 30, The Dark Side: Torture, Detention, Surveillance, Drones & Secrecy in the Bush/Obama Era (Con't)

We’re not going after people – we’re going after their phones, in the hopes that the person on the other end of that missile is the bad guy.

—Anonymous former drone operator, quoted by Jeremy Scahill & Glenn Greenwald (2014)

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