The Assassination Complex by Jeremy Scahill

Author:Jeremy Scahill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Stating that 75 percent of operations in the region were strikes and that “kill operations significantly reduce the intelligence available from detainees and captured material,” the study recommended an expansion of “capture finishes via host-nation partners for more ‘finish-derived’ intelligence.” One of the problems with that scenario, however, is that security forces in host nations like Yemen and Somalia are profoundly unreliable and have been linked to a wide variety of abuses, including the torture of prisoners.

In a 2014 report by the Stimson Commission on U.S. Drone Policy, retired general John Abizaid and former Defense Department official Rosa Brooks wrote that the “enormous uncertainties” of drone warfare are “multiplied further when the United States relies on intelligence and other targeting information provided by a host nation government: How can we be sure we are not being drawn into a civil war or being used to target the domestic political enemies of the host state leadership?”6

The military relies heavily on intelligence from electronic communications, much of it provided by foreign governments, but acknowledges that the information is “neither as timely nor as focused as tactical intelligence.”

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