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Jeremy Scahill: Who Approves the Drones? [VIDEO]

In the 1990s, targeted killing was highly controversial. Today, the practice is barely questioned. What happened in between?

Francis Reynolds

April 16, 2012

Which is the scariest? Targeted assassinations, the fact that Congress can no longer prevent them, or the fact that Congress doesn’t seem to care about the loss of oversight? In this episode from VideoNation, author and Nation writer Jeremy Scahill explains the steps taken by the Bush administration and extended by the Obama administration to circumvent Congress and carry out targeted killings.

—Elizabeth Whitman

Francis ReynoldsTwitterFrancis Reynolds is The Nation’s multimedia editor.


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