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The investigative-reporting website The Intercept, founded by Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and others, today posted “The Drone Papers” — eight articles concerning America’s use of drone attacks in its post-9/11 wars, based in part on a leak of document-packages of PowerPoint-type slideshows, plus four of the document-packages. The documents, Scahill says in the first of the articles, “were provided by a source within the intelligence community who worked on the types of operations and programs described in the slides.”

In a second article, “Find, Fix, Finish,” Scahill outlines the known history of the drone program, and includes quotes to The Intercept by Gen. Michael Flynn, former Director of the DIA and a former commander of Joint Special Operations Command, criticizing the program. Flynn said,

“Our entire Middle East policy seems to be based on firing drones. That’s what this administration decided to do in its counterterrorism campaign. They’re enamored by the ability of special operations and the CIA to find a guy in the middle of the desert in some shitty little village and drop a bomb on his head and kill him.”

A case-study based on the leaked documents is in the article, “Manhunting in the Hindu Kush; Civilian Casualties and Strategic Failures in America’s Longest War” by Ryan Devereaux, which centers on a 2011-2013 campaign, Operation Haymaker, in northeast Afghanistan. The article states its conclusion at the outset,”… the military’s own analysis demonstrates that the Haymaker campaign was in many respects a failure. The vast majority of those killed in airstrikes were not the direct targets. Nor did the campaign succeed in significantly degrading al Qaeda’s operations in the region.”

The document-source confirmed that military reporting on drone strikes assumes that individuals killed along with the actual target are also terrorists, and they’re designated in the records as “enemy killed in action,” (EKIA). Though missiles can also be fired from conventional aircraft, 9 times out of 10 they’re from drones. “Firing a missile at a target in a group of people, the source said, requires ‘an even greater leap of faith’ — a leap that he believes often treats physical proximity as evidence.”

The only one of the leaked documents which mentions civilian casualties is an annotated bar graph which shows mission statistics from September 2011 through September 2012, a total of more than 1,800 “night ops” with a total of 14 civilian casualty “events” for the year. “‘The 14 civilian casualties is highly suspect,’ said the source. `I know the actual number is much higher,’ he added. `But they make the numbers themselves so they can get away with writing off most of the kills as legitimate.'”

You can’t duck around the fact that the so-called Democratic Presidential campaigns are nothing but a clown show which is run by Britain,— not Obama, but Britain. And Obama has never been anything other than a stooge for Britain.

Lyndon LaRouche had earlier been made aware of British operations which were launched in that Western area of the United States four days before last Tuesday night’s so-called debate,— British operations aimed at setting up the clown-show of Tuesday night, and triggering the nationwide and worldwide reaction which followed on Wednesday morning.

Indeed, the ringmaster of Tuesday night’s circus, Anderson Cooper of the dubious CNN news outlet, is a Vanderbilt, of the British-loving Vanderbilt plutocrats. He is the son of fashion icon Gloria Vanderbilt, and a direct descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt. From the mouth of this British agent, came the selection of “issues” which the so-called candidates had to address,— which “issues,” and when, and for how long. Again: this is the British, and nobody but the British.

Hillary Clinton’s great failure, as the big loser of the Tuesday night debate, was made clearer by a series of recent articles published by Glenn Greenwald’s news site the Intercept.com. Glenn Greenwald was one of the reporters for the original disclosures by Edward Snowden, and the Intercept’s current source has rightly been called a “new Edward Snowden.” He is a disenchanted official somewhere within the Obama drone-murder apparatus. Already, the source’s reports,— corroborated, like Snowden’s, with classified documents,— have moved the ACLU to denounce the drone killings as pure murder, which they are, and to cry out that all the reassurances by Obama and former Attorney General Holder have proven false.

Obama regularly sifts through what are called “baseball cards” of selected victims,— as he has ever since he assumed office,— to single out those who will be killed. The acclaimed so-called “high technology” of this murder program, which is much inferior to the Russian technology being deployed against ISIS, consists of tracking the locations of the cell-phones of the victims. And it’s highly fallible.

“It requires an enormous amount of faith in the technology that you’re using,” the source said. “There’s countless instances where I’ve come across intelligence that was faulty.” This, he said, is a primary factor in the killing of civilians. “It’s stunning the number of instances when selectors are misattributed to certain people. And it isn’t until several months or years later that you all of a sudden realize that the entire time you thought you were going after this really hot target, you wind up realizing it was his mother’s phone the whole time.”

(By the way, have you called your mother lately?)

And it’s still the case, after eight years of the Obama presidency, that unintended bystanders are killed in great numbers,— probably many times the number of targeted victims. During one five-month period of Operation Haymaker in Afghanistan, according to the documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets. “Anyone caught in the vicinity is guilty by association,” the source said. When “a drone strike kills more than one person, there is no guarantee that those persons deserved their fate. So it’s a phenomenal gamble.”

The documents show that the military designated people it killed in targeted strikes as EKIA—”enemy killed in action”—even if they were not the intended targets of the strike. Unless evidence posthumously emerged to prove the males killed were not terrorists or “unlawful enemy combatants,” EKIA remained their designation, according to the source. That process, he said, “is insane. But we’ve made ourselves comfortable with that. The intelligence community, JSOC, the CIA, and everybody that helps support and prop up these programs, they’re comfortable with that idea.”

This is what Hillary’s bought into,— the British murder policy of London’s puppet Obama, as a victim of what Lyndon LaRouche has long called the Bettelheim syndrome. She went from an intense fear of being murdered by Obama herself, to compliance with Obama’s wishes out of terror, and from there, all the way to becoming a would-be murderer herself.

Now Hillary, the sorcerer’s apprentice, even chides Obama for being less murderous than she is.

So don’t be fool enough to try to narrow this down to an “issue,” or to “issues,” as Anderson Cooper would have you do. Finally admit that this whole process is irremediably rotten to the core. What’s needed is real leadership, working through the Manhattan-centered process of triggering a new Renaissance. It is that which can catalyze a valid selection-process for a workable Presidency.

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Cop swore in arrest report that photog’s repeated use of flash ended up “blinding him and preventing him from performing his duties,” despite camera having no flash.

“You spit on him,” a woman can be heard shouting off-camera. “He just spit on him!”

“We have had several people who were convicted and turned over to federal authorities released. It is a very real concern.”