Edward Snowden To Reveal NSA's 'Central Role In The US Assassination Program' -- Business Insider
Over the weekend, investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill told an audience in Brazil that he and Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald are working on a project involving "how the National Security Agency plays a significant, central role in the U.S. assassination program."
The information apparently comes from classified NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden to Greenwald (and others).
We know a bit about the NSA's connection to America's global capture/kill machine already.
In the 2010 report "Top secret America," Dana Priest and Will Arkin of The Washington Post reported that the NSA provided the capture/kill squads of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) with a huge advantage after the signals intelligence agency "learned to locate all electronic signals in Iraq."
“We just had a field day,” a senior JSOC commander told the Post.
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My Comment: Two of the chief architects for this program in Iraq were General McChrystal and General Petraeus. There is a good discussion on this program with General McChrustal at the Brookings Institute here .... and a good summary article on the role that General McChrystal and General Petraeus in developing this program can be read here.
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