Three Reasons We Can’t Believe President Obama’s Dramatically Low Figures on Drone Deaths

‘After years of demands for accountability from drone survivors and their supporters, the Obama administration on a Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend finally released the death toll of U.S. bombings conducted outside of what the White House deems traditional battle zones. The result is the stunningly lowball claim that 64 to 116 civilians have been killed.
The Obama administration says that between 2009 and the end of 2015, 473 strikes—the vast majority of them drones—killed roughly 2,500 “terrorist combatants.” Yet, the White House did not reveal the most basic information about who these people were, where they were killed, and how these claims can be verified.’
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