The Pentagon only admitted to the unjust slaughter of civilians in this one particular instance because the media did actual investigative journalism on this one particular airstrike. This is an indictment of the Pentagon's drone problem, but it's also an indictment of the media.
Where was all this investigative journalism over the last twenty years? The US has dropped thousands upon thousands of bombs in its "war on terror" throughout the Middle East and Africa that the mass media barely reported on, much less investigated in depth. They're complicit.
The one time NYT launched such an investigation was the one time the mass media were working to spin Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan as an unmitigated disaster that proves ending US wars is bad. Don't praise them for the investigation, blame them for not doing more of them.
Meant to type "drone program" in the OP instead of "drone problem", but I kinda like it.
"Family! Friends! What are you all doing here?"
"This is an intervention, Pentagon. You have a drone problem."
"Family! Friends! What are you all doing here?"
"This is an intervention, Pentagon. You have a drone problem."
Free Daniel Hale, jail the people whose crimes he helped expose, and jail the mass media war propagandists while you're at it.
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