http://democracynow.org - We continue our conversation with
The Intercept’s
Jeremy Scahill and national security reporter
Matthew Cole, who examines
Republican presidential candidate
Ted Cruz’s pick of right-wing neoconservative
Frank Gaffney as a foreign policy adviser.
Gaffney has a history of Islamic fear-mongering, and Cole says his "incendiary and false" views shaped
Cruz’s call to monitor Muslim neighborhoods after the
Brussels attacks.
Scahill responds to the
Obama administration’s announcement that it will for the first time release tallies of the number of people it believes it has killed in drone strikes in countries that lie outside of conventional war zones. "
Whatever the
White House releases is going to have a stunningly low number of civilians that were killed," he says, noting the
U.S. considers anyone it kills in a drone strike an "enemy killed in action" unless later determined otherwise. "This shouldn’t really be taken seriously as an indicator of how many innocent or unknown people have been killed in these drone strikes."
He also discusses claims that U.S. coalition forces killed
Haji Imam, a major
ISIS commander, earlier this month.
Defense officials say Imam was a senior religious leader of the self-proclaimed
Islamic State in Syria.
Watch the rest of this conversation.
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- published: 28 Mar 2016
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