by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 21, 2013 | Monitor
The number of people killed in U.S. drone strikes is officially a state secret that you can’t know. Sen. Lindsey Graham just gave what he says is the death toll to a South Carolina Rotary club.
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 12, 2013 | Monitor
As you’ll hear in the State of the Union tonight, President Obama wants to halve the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan and cut the U.S. nuclear stockpile. The first thing he can do. The second thing, well…
by Noah Shachtman | Feb 8, 2013 | Monitor
Former intelligence officers believe this remote airstrip in Saudi Arabia is a secret U.S. airfield, used to launch attacks on militants in Yemen.
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 7, 2013 | Monitor
The head of the United Nations inquiry into drone strikes and targeted killings believes the chief architect of those efforts, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan, will rein them in at the CIA.
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 5, 2013 | Monitor
Once, a nation could only attack another if it had evidence an enemy was readying an “imminent” attack. To justify drone strikes on American citizens, President Obama redefined imminence out of existence.