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1. last night,the #NYTimes published 3:51 minutes of a Pentagon video footage of the #drone strike which last August killed an entire family of 10 (7 children) in #Kabul: it's a mystery why the Pentagon declassified it after just 4MONTHS after the strike:
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2.I have never seen such a fast declassification process. Just to give you a measure: #Reuters tried hard to access the video #CollateralMurder for 3 years to no avail
3. I wonder: the Biden Admin. is currently reviewing the US policies on #DroneStrikes,considering that thousands of victims were innocent (9 out 10,according to the #drone whistleblower @TeamDanielHale): was the drone video declassified because of some internal disagreements?
QUESTION: Earlier this week, there were reports that @CIA official Mike D'Andrea, a key figure in US #counterterrorism "activities" #dronestrikes in the Middle East, was aboard a military plane that crashed in Afghanistan and may have been killed or captured. Is that true?
What we've heard is an official "no comment" and an unofficial "no way he would be on that plane". So we asked @trapwire's Mike Maness, who spent 17 years as a CIA case officer, and former Chief of Station... Is it likely D'andrea, or someone like him would be on that plane?
He said, "I cannot think of any real operational reason for Mike (or any other case officer) to be riding in that type of aircraft. The E11A provides “over the horizon” comms connectivity for military and intel teams dispersed throughout Afghanistan..."
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez — the alleged future of the #DemocraticParty — explains that she wants:
1) Death to capitalism & profit
2) Free housing, college, & healthcare
3) Open borders
4) End to killing terrorists
Here’s why this Dem thinks she‘s nuts. (1/6)
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1) Death to capitalism & profit
2) Free housing, college, & healthcare
3) Open borders
4) End to killing terrorists
Here’s why this Dem thinks she‘s nuts. (1/6)
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Capitalism has eliminated more poverty than any economic system on the planet.
Period.
Is it a perfect system? Not by a long shot. But Ocasio’s dream would unquestionably put at risk millions of people who have climbed out of poverty.
Just ask anyone who lives in Venezuela.
Period.
Is it a perfect system? Not by a long shot. But Ocasio’s dream would unquestionably put at risk millions of people who have climbed out of poverty.
Just ask anyone who lives in Venezuela.
Meanwhile, Ocasio‘s promise of free govt services is a joke.
1) Free healthcare for all? She has no plan to pay for it.
2) Free housing? No money left after free healthcare.
3) Free college? But seriously, we’d be out of money.
These aren’t bold ideas. They’re bald-faced lies.
1) Free healthcare for all? She has no plan to pay for it.
2) Free housing? No money left after free healthcare.
3) Free college? But seriously, we’d be out of money.
These aren’t bold ideas. They’re bald-faced lies.
Obama had a scandal-free presidency? Yeah right. Maybe to someone who wasn't paying attention. Here's what #ActualFlatticus #AlanSmithee had to say back when @brianefallon tried to peddle such a lie: 
A chilling story of #Obama and his #DroneStrikes, by #ActualFlatticus #AlanSmithee.
Pictured link: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Pictured link: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
#Obama did not end the sale of military equipment to police departments, by #ActualFlatticus #AlanSmithee.
