{"product_id":"the-assassination-complex-inside-the-governments-secret-drone-warfare-program-9781501144141","title":"The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program","description":"\"A searing, facts-driven indictment of America's drone wars and their implications for US democracy and foreign policy. A must-read for concerned citizens\" (\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review) from bestselling author Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues at the investigative website \u003ci\u003eThe Intercept\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrones are a tool, not a policy. The policy is assassination. But drone strikes often kill people other than the intended target. These deaths, which have included women and children, dwarf the number of actual combatants who have been assassinated by drones. They have generated anger toward the United States among foreign populations and have even become a recruiting tool for jihadists. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first drone strike outside a declared war zone was conducted more than twelve years ago, but it was not until May 2013 that the White House released a set of standards and procedures for conducting such strikes. However, there was no explanation of the internal process used to determine whether a suspect should be killed without being indicted or tried, even if that suspect is an American citizen. The implicit message of the Obama administration has been: \u003ci\u003eTrust, but don't verify. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Assassination Complex \u003c\/i\u003ereveals stunning details of the government's secretive drone warfare program based on documents supplied by a confidential source in the intelligence community. These documents make it possible to begin the long-overdue debate about the policy of drone warfare and how it is conducted. \u003ci\u003eThe Assassination Complex\u003c\/i\u003e allows us to understand at last the circumstances under which the US government grants itself the right to sentence individuals to death without the established checks and balances of arrest, trial, and appeal--\"readers will be left in no doubt that drone warfare affronts morality and the Constitution\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501144141\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Jeremy Scahill, The Staff of the Intercept","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36654842052764,"sku":"9781501144141","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_8bd3ae63-0d3e-462e-92ad-361ba65df43e.jpg?v=1603884207","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-assassination-complex-inside-the-governments-secret-drone-warfare-program-9781501144141","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}