by Noah Shachtman | Nov 9, 2012 | Monitor
U.S. Reaper drones in a hangar at Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan. Photo: Noah Shachtman Forget Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and all the other secret little warzones. The real center of the U.S. drone campaign is in plain sight — on the hot and open battlefield...
by Spencer Ackerman | Nov 7, 2012 | Monitor
An Air Force MQ-9 Reaper as it prepares to taxi on a training mission in September. Photo: USAF When Barack Obama took office, drone strikes were a once-in-a-while thing, with an attack every week or two. Now, they’re the centerpiece of a global U.S....
by Spencer Ackerman | Oct 24, 2012 | Monitor
Former Gov. Mitt Romney, left, with President Obama at the first presidential debate, Oct. 3, 2012. Obama has institutionalized a process for killing terrorists with drone strikes that Romney stands to inherit. Photo: Charlie Neibergall / AP It’s a good thing...
by Noah Shachtman | Oct 3, 2012 | Monitor
A car burns after clashes in Benghazi. Photo: AP/Mohammad Hannon There’s fresh evidence that security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was something less than first class. Documents recovered from the grounds of the American mission show that the guards there...
by Noah Shachtman | Sep 5, 2012 | Monitor
An Air Force Reaper drone on patrol over Afghanistan. Photo: USAF 29 dead in a little over a week. Nearly 200 gone this year. The White House is stepping up its campaign of drone attacks in Yemen, with four strikes in eight days. And not even the slaying of 10...