n_b_c_ news today reporting
uh... that in fact we don't know who were killing in our interest rates now
of course
the washington post had reported this before
but this corroboration is incredibly important
first let me give you present no bomb on how actually careful with we are with
otro strikes
before i tell you what the realities watch
we only target all kinda and its associated force
role of preference is always to detain
interrogate
and prosecute
wrong we act against terrorists
oppose a continuing
eminent
threat to the american people
and brought me strikers tech
there must be near certainty
that no civilians will be killed or injured draws a bronze is have we come
straight
every single one of those statements were wrong
and i think credibly fair to say
now here in new with the program does and you're about to find out what it
does if you hadn't seen the washington post story from earlier
richard and with great reporter at n_b_c_ news reporting the c_i_a_ did not
always know who was targeting
and killing and roast race in pakistan
over a fourteen-month period
an n_b_c_ news review class fight in dallas report shows
they said that
other militants also were killed
they had all the less people who are archaic
and then they had separate lists called other militants in fact one and for
those killed by drones
impact same between september thirteen twenty of twenty ten october thirtieth
twenty eleven
were quote other militants
analytical was use of the c_i_a_ missus bassett e
could not determined affiliation of those killed
prompting questions about how they do see could conclude that they were a
threat
to u_s_ national security
that same great question
if you don't know who they are how do you know their threat to our national
security
remember their northern pakistan
how do you know that guy with a gun down there
is not protecting is far more is home like anybody in texas would do
if you don't even know what he has
and all of that former down there
being a threat in india and immediate threat to the united states of america
read detail it's
remembered as a whole severed tell workaround data
we're not talking about docket against
we're joined as they don't know
but they killed anyway
quote
the uncertainty appears arise from the use of the so-called signature strikes
filamentous suspected terrorists
being targets based in part on their behavior and associates
a former white house official said the u_s_ sometimes executes people
based on
circumstantial evidence
two different kinds of strikes we told you this before it was the washington
post or
personality strikes where we know who were executing
signature strikes
where we have no idea who were executed
continuing
yet officials seem certain
that however many people died
and whoever they work
none of them were non-combatants
in fact of approximately six hundred people listed
as killed in the documents
only one that
is ascribed
as a civilly
kid out of courses
horrible job
soft money it's rediculous
and in fact let me skip ahead here as show you the number of civilians killed
in yemen
and in pakistan
in any event between two thousand two and twenty thirteen
we had
forty forty fifty four drone strike still reported killed
to within thirty three different in thirty three
user by independent sources
civilians are boarding killed worked well to forty five children for detailed
where two
now that's nothing compared to pakistan
u_s_ rose strikes hit between two thousand two and twenty thirty three
hundred sixty eight times
the great overwhelming majority of those
marinol bombing administration over three hundred
during obon administration to report ild
two thousand
by more than forty one to three thousand five hundred and thirty three civilians
killed four hundred eleven tic
eight hundred eighty-four remember
these clowns are
in the administration are saying there was only one civilian job
independent reporters and an opera groups to say no
orbit eight hundred native-born does all the way was the could confirm
worst it could be a much higher number
use in the last number their children for detailed one hundred and sixty eight
to one hundred ninety seven
present omar what back in may said
the u_s_ has a high threshold
for taking legal action
you saw him sent by
a high threshold for tea
legal action
apparently not necessarily the case
once again n_b_c_ news explains
is so-called signature strikes
intelligent officers
and drawing operator's skill suspects
base on their patterns of behavior
but without
positive identification
with signature strikes
the c_i_a_
doesn't necessarily no
who it is killing
so let's stop here for same before i give you more
information on this
so may gather things like
emails sin
this center in fact
you don't know who it is the big but their gas
they actually let me give me a couple more cause they give even more details
on this
they said one of the one former senior intelligence official
said that at the height of the drone program in pakistan in two thousand nine
in twenty ten
as many as half of the strikes
were classified as signature strikes
so fifty percent of the time we don't know who were killed
and here's the details the agency can watch for example as an unknown person
frequency places meets
individuals makes phone calls and sense the mails and then match those against
other people link to the same calls emails and meetings
so
remember here at home their tracking our emails and our phone calls
in pakistan about what they're doing the same fake
and if you happen to email or for the wrong time
and you have to show up at the wrong place
if we don't know where you are working to kelly anyway
no that's okay they're only doing it in pakistan
they would never do it here
i think it would never do with the u_s_ citizens
accepted the already have done it before u_s_ citizens
but that's okay they were in yemen into pakistan
i'm sure they wonder what the u_s_ citizens based on emails and phone calls
they collected
here in the u_s_ right
not yet at least
we think
but they're certainly knowing it's somewhere in the world and what it does
account of its uh... person from yemen are pakistan
i think about how deeply immoral it is
to kill someone
when you don't even know who it is
one more quote on that
half-a-dozen former and current u_s_ counter-terrorism officials
told n_b_c_ news this signature strikes
dude generally killed combatants
budding knowledge
that intelligence officials
don't always know
who those combatants are
haven't we
killed some combatants who are they i don't know
would you do that
really i mean no matter what security official generally came to you and said
hey listen we'd like to excuse summit
what would be your first question
who is a right
anne sania we don't know who it is
buddy called some guy and i think you might emailed and he went to a place in
northern pakistan then we think they're militants
now but millions of people live in
those areas of northern pakistan
would you ask that question
wouldn't you want to know who your killing
apparently our president does it
he presses the button
fifty percent of the time
we kill someone
whose identity we don't know
gets more orwellian
some of the official said the moral and legal aspects of the signature strikes
were often discussed
all day take associates vessel bomb industries are always are
all and these are serious issues
and for a way to re-release paper time look at it
indeed you any governmental we executed anyway even though we don't know yet
military double sea
but we're very serious a somber about it
once a target has been killed
the core of the current and former u_s_ officials
the c_i_a_ does not take someone out of a combatant category
and put them in the noncombatant category
alas
after the strike
the preponderance of evidence is produced
showing a person killed
was a civilian
in other words
you're guilty
until proven innocent
but you can only be proven innocent by a preponderance of evidence
after
we already executed
that that isn't were well ian and that isn't
deeply morally troubling
the some chance
there's something wrong with you
that there's something wrong with our government
there something wrong with our democracy
we should never allow this to happen under our name
now our leaders are not dictators
there are presidents we collected them their our government including congress
and the senate they are supposed to be a our representatives and this is what
they're doing in our name
we must stop them politically
did you see that number
a hundred and sixty two hundred ninety seven children killed
well that's what happens
when you
attack people
and you don't know who they are these are
drone strike victims brave new foundation went and found some of the
pictures
acya care bear look at it any more wishing to be a warning
before we showed you those pictures
but think about how ugly our policy is
that allot of us can bear to look at those pictures
but you should look at
'cause we did that
ait the most for bitten thing in politics
is saying the president is a moral
and especially among democrats for president obama
you can ever say that
this present all mama is a great an honorable man
if this things went wrong what was all course a mistaken regrettable mistakes
but they almost never go wrong bill were were assure
i am not a short
here it is our government admitting
week fifty percent on we do draw strike we don't know who were killed
i don't think any decent moral person
would excuse someone
if they didn't know who they work
unfortunately
our government has become
deeply moral
and deeply indecent