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reorg

(3,317 posts) Sat Oct 17, 2015, 10:15 AM Oct 2015

Frmr US serviceman gets whistleblower award for revealing details on drone war

The former pilot received the German Whistleblower Award for revealing details of operations taking place at the Ramstein base, specifically, its role in transferring information between the US and its CIA missions in North Africa, Afghanistan and the Middle East. He was among the first to bring into question the role the base was playing.

https://www.rt.com/usa/318942-bryant-drone-pilot-whistleblower/

Ramstein 'involved US drone programs,' says former US drone operator
A former US drone operator says the US Ramstein airbase in Germany had a key role to play in US drone strikes. Brandon Bryant was answering questions from a parliamentary committee investigating the NSA.

http://www.dw.com/en/ramstein-involved-us-drone-programs-says-former-us-drone-operator/a-18785913

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Frmr US serviceman gets whistleblower award for revealing details on drone war (Original Post) reorg Oct 2015 OP

The Immoral Acts Committed In The Name Of American Empire Knows No Bounds cantbeserious Oct 2015 #1

Very Alex Jonesian Thank You uhnope Oct 2015 #12

Ad Hominen Attacks - First Sign Of Nothing To Say cantbeserious Oct 2015 #14

In our name, we are killing volunteer medical workers. Sickens me. Scuba Oct 2015 #2

RT... uhnope Oct 2015 #3

Some more news you won't find in your corporate media: reorg Oct 2015 #4

calling BS on your post and RT uhnope Oct 2015 #6

where did you find the news reorg Oct 2015 #7

lol. It's irrelevant to mention Russia when discussing Russia Today. uhnope Oct 2015 #8

So, where did you find the news? reorg Oct 2015 #9

US gov't is captive to the same financial institutions that own the media cprise Oct 2015 #10

lol uhnope Oct 2015 #11

Empire that no longer trusts its allies, no less. cprise Oct 2015 #13

the inner workings of how the drone war is waged reorg Oct 2015 #5

cantbeserious

(13,039 posts)

1. The Immoral Acts Committed In The Name Of American Empire Knows No Bounds

Reply to reorg (Original post)

Sat Oct 17, 2015, 10:22 AM

Oct 2015

eom

uhnope

(6,419 posts)

12. Very Alex Jonesian Thank You

Reply to cantbeserious (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 17, 2015, 07:40 PM

Oct 2015

cantbeserious

(13,039 posts)

14. Ad Hominen Attacks - First Sign Of Nothing To Say

Reply to uhnope (Reply #12)

Sat Oct 17, 2015, 08:59 PM

Oct 2015

eom

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

2. In our name, we are killing volunteer medical workers. Sickens me.

Reply to reorg (Original post)

Sat Oct 17, 2015, 10:37 AM

Oct 2015

uhnope

(6,419 posts)

3. RT...

Reply to reorg (Original post)

Sat Oct 17, 2015, 03:15 PM

Oct 2015

reorg

(3,317 posts)

4. Some more news you won't find in your corporate media:

Reply to uhnope (Reply #3)

Sat Oct 17, 2015, 04:04 PM

Oct 2015

Wife of convicted former CIA spy asks President Obama for pardon
The wife of Jeffrey Sterling asked President Obama to pardon her husband, who was convicted under the Espionage Act for allegedly sharing information with a New York Times reporter. Sterling is serving three-and-a-half years in federal prison.

https://www.rt.com/usa/318913-wife-cia-spy-letter-obama/

uhnope

(6,419 posts)

6. calling BS on your post and RT

Reply to reorg (Reply #4)

Sat Oct 17, 2015, 04:19 PM

Oct 2015

Literally every major media source has covered the Sterlingstory.

What they haven't done is spin it to the benefit of the brutal, homophobic, racist dictatorship that runs RT.

Sterling got 3.5 years. He'd be dead or disappeared in Russia, except of course a POC could hardly be so successful in the first place there.

RTSTFU

reorg

(3,317 posts)

7. where did you find the news

Reply to uhnope (Reply #6)

Sat Oct 17, 2015, 04:36 PM

Oct 2015

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above, that his wife made an appeal to Obama to pardon her husband?

Democracy Now, TruthDig, RT.

Where could you read about Brandon Bryant receiving a whistleblower award in Germany?

Well, you would hear about it in Germany, him being interviewed by ARD, the main TV channel (and you could read about it even in the Stars and Stripes) but not in the US, I'm afraid.

Your characterisation of Russia is not only irrelevant, of course, it's also deluded. But what else is new around here!

uhnope

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8. lol. It's irrelevant to mention Russia when discussing Russia Today.

Reply to reorg (Reply #7)

Sat Oct 17, 2015, 04:40 PM

Oct 2015

and you call others deluded.

reorg

(3,317 posts)

9. So, where did you find the news?

Reply to uhnope (Reply #8)

Sat Oct 17, 2015, 04:55 PM

Oct 2015

Maybe the Intercept will report on it, I imagine. Here is a recent article about the drone war:

Despite the rise in civilian casualties and the well-documented failure of drone strikes to achieve the military’s broader objectives, there is every indication that unmanned airstrikes will play an increasing role in U.S. military engagement in Afghanistan, as they have in war zones across the world. Less than two weeks after the U.N. issued its report, Foreign Policy revealed that JSOC has drastically reduced the number of night raids it conducts in Afghanistan, while dramatically increasing its reliance on airstrikes, and is currently “on pace to double the rate at which it kills ‘high-value individuals’ using kinetic strikes, compared to how many it was killing that way five years ago.”

Afghanistan’s northeastern border with Pakistan remains an active area of focus for the remaining U.S. special operations forces in the country. The Pech Valley, once a hotspot during the Haymaker campaign, continues to host a constellation of armed groups. Al Qaeda, the organization used to justify both the invasion of Afghanistan and the Haymaker campaign, reportedly enjoys a more pronounced presence in the valley than ever. “The al Qaeda presence there now,” according to a report by the United States Institute for Peace, “is larger than when U.S. counterterrorism forces arrived in 2002.”

https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/manhunting-in-the-hindu-kush/

cprise

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10. US gov't is captive to the same financial institutions that own the media

Reply to uhnope (Reply #8)

Sat Oct 17, 2015, 06:41 PM

Oct 2015

So, while we're at it, reminding people about oligarch news with every NBC, CNN, etc. post sounds good to me.

They could re-name LBN "The Empire News".

uhnope

(6,419 posts)

11. lol

Reply to cprise (Reply #10)

Sat Oct 17, 2015, 07:35 PM

Oct 2015

yeah, empire, sure. As long as we agree that words have no meaning

cprise

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13. Empire that no longer trusts its allies, no less.

Reply to uhnope (Reply #11)

Sat Oct 17, 2015, 08:11 PM

Oct 2015

And lets ignore the US world "leadership" and "dominance" rhetoric that suffuses not only press coverage, but also appears in many campaign speeches for both parties.

The political culture has lost the ability to look at itself in the mirror. So of course simple descriptive terms become foreign, to be used only on foreigners.

reorg

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5. the inner workings of how the drone war is waged

Reply to reorg (Original post)

Sat Oct 17, 2015, 04:14 PM

Oct 2015

The Intercept series "The Drone Papers" exposes the inner workings of how the drone war is waged, from how targets are identified to who decides to kill. They expose a number of flaws, including that strikes have resulted in large part from electronic communications data, or "signals intelligence," that officials acknowledge is unreliable. The documents reveal that targets were identified due to "so-called Arab features," which includes being "taller than everyone else," says Scahill. An investigative journalist, Sean Naylor, in his new book, "Relentless Stike," tells a story of this method being used. Scahill explains, "how they struck a target because he was taller than the other people around him, and they thought that he—that that meant that he was sort of an Arab or a foreign fighter. And it turned out that he was of average size and that the people around him were children."

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