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Ten, nine, eight,
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seven, six, five,
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four, three, two...
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New years eve, 2011,
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most Americans are intoxicated,
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or about to be,
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and the news cameras are setting up at Times Square.
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In Washington, a more somber ceremony is under way.
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Invitation only.
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President Barrack Obama
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sings into law the NDAA, or National Defense Authorization Act
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Like so many war related bills, the NDAA
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has been rubber stamped by the House and Senate,
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receiving near-unanimous support, by both Democrats and Republicans
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Yet, this bill had a very special clause.
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The rules formerly applied only to foreign terror suspects,
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or "enemy combatants", would now apply to American citizens themselves.
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Overturning hundreds of years of common law,
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Americans could now be subject to indefinite detention, and even murder,
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without the benefit of due process.
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You have elites at the top, and then you have ordinary Americans who
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who are subjected to this harsh system of punishment
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and now we've created a new category, an even lower category,
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as part of the war on terror, that is for people who are accused - accused
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of being involved in some way with terrorism.
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Including people who are American citizens and those who are found on American soil.
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So, if you are poor and indigent,
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you will be assigned a public defender who can spend an average of 7 minutes
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speaking with you during the course of your case, even if you're charged with a felony that can send you to prison
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for decades, but at least you get the pretenses, the trappings of due process.
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But if you're accused of terrorism,
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you basically are in a world where you are a sub-person.
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A non-human. A world of complete lawlessness.
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Which means that you can be detained by the government, or even
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killed by the government, without even a shred of due process.
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I talked earlier about how I stopped litigating and began writing about politics
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because I perceived there was this creeping extremism.
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The case that really alarmed me the most, initially,
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that led me to do that was the case of Jose Padilla,
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who was an American citizen arrested on US soil at Chicago International Airport in 2002.
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And rather than being charged with crimes,
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and having evidence presented against him and a jury of his peers convened,
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in order to see if he could be convicted beyond a reasonable doubt with his guilt established,
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Padilla, instead, was declared by the President,
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with no oversight or checks of any kind, to be an "enemy combatant" and put into a
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military brig in South Carolina
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where he remained for the next three and a half years,
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was never charged with a crime,
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and was even held completely incommunicado -
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he was barred from any communication with the outside world, including even a lawyer.
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And was then tortured to the point that he now has
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very crippling and permanent psychological
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disabilities. This was the President of the US asserting power without much resistance
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to imprison - he was an American citizen, born in the US, as much of an American citizen as anyone that you know -
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and, yet, he was imprisoned for three and a half years without charges of any kind because the
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President claimed the right to imprison accused terrorists without having to prove their guilt.
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I had thought that was the most radical power that we would see a president assert, the most lawless and radical power, until
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a year ago, when the Obama administration went much further than that,
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and announced that it believes it has the power not only to eavesdrop on American citizens without warrants,
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or to detain American citizens without due process,
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but to target American citizens for death, for assassination,
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without a shred of due process, transparency, oversight or checks and balances.
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And the Obama administration not only asserts this power, but has applied it
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and seized it by targeting the American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki
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and then killing him several months ago in Yemen
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by sending a drone over a car in which he was driving,
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far from any battlefield, and ending his life along with the lives of two other human beings in the car, one of whom was an American citizen.
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Then two weeks later, another drone flew over Yemen and
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killed his 16 year old son, also an American citizen and his 17 year old cousin.
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So, here you have a world not where due process is woefully inadequate,
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but where it simply doesn't exist. It's literally a world of lawlessness.
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And this is really what the abandonment of the rule of law has brought,
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which is that justice system treats you
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not based on what you've done,
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as blind justice requires, but based almost entirely on
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who you are. That really is the definition of the abandonment of the rule of law.
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Under the Bush and Obama administrations, the veil had been lifted once and for all.
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At least for those willing to switch the channel.
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"Charlie Sheen has never been more candid about it and makes no excuses for it.
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He also shared with us some of what really happened that night last month,
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when he was rushed to the hospital after a drug-filled night with porn stars."
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"Now to the latest on Lance Armstrong and all the fallout after
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his admission to Oprah that he doped
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to win the Tour-de-France and other races during his cycling career."
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"I want to discuss the last Fox debate in which a gay soldier
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got up at the debate on video and asked whether or not as president,
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you would reinstate 'Don't ask, don't tell'."
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"Marry Christmas or Happy Holidays? A Christmas tree or a holiday tree?
Which should it be? Depends on whom you ask.
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We've seen controversy, most notably prompted by the White House:
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it sent out cards - this card, as a matter of fact - wishing a holiday season of hope and happiness.
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No mention of Christmas."
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"Guess what?
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There are bigger things out there going on in the world,
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in the news, in this country specifically!
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So, here, I'd like to play just a little bit of catch-up, since we've been on break.
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Just in time to start off a brand new year, president Obama went ahead
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and signed NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act.
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The same Authorization Act that also includes provision
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for indefinite military detention."
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"A group of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds to file suit
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against president Obama, Leon Panetta and six members of Congress.
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The plaintiffs include rights activists, whistleblowers,
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authors and professors, among them Chris Hedges,
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who all believe their first amendment rights have been violated
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and feel imminent danger due to the president's recent
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National Defense Authorization Act, known as the NDAA."
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"We had a huge turnout this morning.
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There were several hundred people waiting in line,
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from what I also understand, people were coming in the front entrance as well.
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The main courtroom, from what I understand, was full capacity and
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we spilled over into a secondary room on a lower floor,
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and there were probably at least another 100, 200 people present in that room."
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"On December 31st, 2011, President Obama signed into law
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the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2012.
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A bill passed each year. Section 10-21 of the bill
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provides sweeping powers of detention through vague and undefined terms.
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Critics say it grants the government to arrest any American citizen
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or anyone anywhere without warrant
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and to indefinitely detain them without any charge."
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"Whatever high ground that we ever held
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in our moral conviction that we believed in a democracy,
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no longer applies. I mean, we now,
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are the people that are conducting the war of terror.
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It's not the war on terror, it's the war of terror."
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"On September 12, 2012, the suit had one of its biggest victories."
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"The judge did rule in favor of the plaintiffs
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that portions of the act were not constitutional.
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That was heartening to hear, that a judge would say that at the federal level.
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Locally, here in New York, I guess it's the southern district
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and that was overturned in the appeals court."
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"On October 2nd, 2012, a state against a permanent injunction was granted
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by a 3 judge motion panel of the 2nd district US Court of Appeals,
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pending appeal on the merits."
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"The government is being more and more aggressive.
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It's asserting more and more rights to enter other parts of civil life
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in the name of fighting terrorism. That goes too far.
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If we don't have cases like this, fighting back,
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the government will grasp more and more power."
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"Wednesday's court hearing was open to the public."
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"Campaign partners say that over 60,000 emails
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have been sent to Congress calling on the reversal
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of section 1021 of the NDAA.
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Basically, what they're saying is that everyone,
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from journalists, to war correspondents, to activists, are in danger
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of imminent detention and arrest.
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Susan Modaress, Press TV, New York."
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"But for my purposes on the
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so called war on terror,
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what it does is continue the, what I call the Bush-Obama policies.
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The first of those policies is indefinite detention.
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That you can pick up people anywhere in the world,
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and what's interesting - including American citizens,
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and hold them indefinitely without trial,
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and even hold them off-shore.
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We expected this last Congress to try and
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put in legislation that would at least prohibit the holding of US citizens.
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They didn't, so it's still authorized by the law,
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and of course, that's the lawsuit that Chris Hedges and Daniel Ellsberg
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are going to court to try and declare that section of the old law,
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now the new law, unconstitutional.
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So you have an NDAA that, first, allows
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indefinite detention of anyone in the world, including US citizens.
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Secondly,-"
"Before you get into that, Michael,
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wasn't there some amendment that came out of the Senate that
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ensures, or at least is supposed to ensure habeas rights for US citizens?"
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"Well, they have a habeas right, but they can still be held indefinitely
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in detention."
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"So, explain what means, the habeas right, and then..."
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"Everyone, now, because of the cases we won
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at the center over the last 10 years
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has a right to go to court and say to the
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court, which will say to the jailer, the US:
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'Are you holding me legally?'
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The problem with it is, is legally is now defined
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by the NDAA as holding someone in indefinite detention."
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President Obama had been elected with the promise of change,
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including in the foreign policy arena.
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Widely perceived as an anti-war candidate,
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he would, instead, codify into the executive branch the rights of a medieval king.
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In a series of intentional leaks to The NY Times,
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Obama boasted of preparing kill lists,
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of militants in several countries around the globe.
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At one point, during his first term, he was attacking people in five separate countries.
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Where, previously, assassinations had been considered taboo,
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they would now be celebrated as the new model of efficient warfare.
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Most of the known assassinations carried out by the US,
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are conducted by drones, piloted by people sitting at comfortable desks.
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The drone operator can kill dozens of people with a flick of the wrist,
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then walk down the hall for a meal at the cafeteria.
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The dehumanization inherent to such methods can be seen in the language employed by drone operators.
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Harkening back to the most vicious propaganda campaigns from past genocides,
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the human beings killed in drone strikes are referred to as "bug splats".
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"The training time greatly reduced,
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the sophistication greatly increased,
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and we saw those thousands of hours
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that teenagers and young adults spend gaming
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directly applicable to unmanned systems operations."
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"I wanna make sure the people understand, actually, drones have not caused a huge number of civilian casualties.
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For the most part, they have been very precise, precision strikes against Al-Qaeda
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and their affiliates."
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The President is lying.
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Equally disturbing as the civilian casualty rate for drone strikes,
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the CIA often targets individuals
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whose identity is not even known at the time of the strike.
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He or she is merely suspected of being a so called "militant".
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"Someone goes into a shopping mall in pursuit of one of their enemies
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and opens fire on a crowd of people, and guns down a bunch of innocent people in a shopping mall -
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they've murdered those people.
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If- when the Obama administration sets a policy
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where patterns of life are enough of a green light
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to drop missiles on people, or to use-
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to send in AC-130s to spray them down..."
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"But that wasn't the case here, you're talking about the targeted person here."
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"No, no, no, that's not, but, but I'm-
"But that wasn't the case here, you're talking about the targeted person here."
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"No, no, no, that's not, but, but I'm-
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if you go to the village of Al-Majalah in Yemen,
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where I was, and you see the unexploded cluster bombs
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and you have the list and photographic evidence as I do,
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of the women and children that represented the vast majority
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of the deaths in this first strike that Obama authorized on Yemen,
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those people were murdered by President Obama on his orders."
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One of the things we found is that there are entire communities
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who live in areas
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where drones are flying overhead
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24 hours a day, 7 days a week, at times.
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And these people don't know when those drones will strike.
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They don't know who they will strike.
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The result is symptoms
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of psychological disorder,
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of trauma,
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of severe anxiety and of dysfunctionality.
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We heard stories of people who won't leave their houses
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"When we interviewed psychiatrists and psychologists
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who had treated people with these symptoms,
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they said that a number of people displayed
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very serious symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD."
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We may not have declared war on Pakistan,
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but for the people living in north-west Pakistan, under drones,
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they're in a war zone.
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One of the things we found and documented, were incidents of "double tapping".
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"There will be an initial strike on a target, and then very shortly after,
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a secondary strike. What has happened in the
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period between the first and the second strike is that neighbors,
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or people nearby, or family members,
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or, in some cases, doctors, have come to assist
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those who may have been injured and still survived."
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And when they're doing that, a second drone has hit.
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The people with whom we spoke in the communities affected,
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almost without exception, told us:
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"When there's a drone strike, we won't go near afterwards."
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And we even heard this from some medical professionals.
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These so called "militants"
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are doing precisely what US citizens would do
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if a foreign power were bombing and/or invading the US.
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They would defend their homeland.
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Tears and anger after another air-strike left, again,
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innocent civilians dead.
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This time around, the attack took place in Garuch,
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a remote village in the Laghman province that was attacked
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by coalition forces for the fourth time in the past year.
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These people show us the clothes of those who died.
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"I lost everything", says this woman, "I lost my husband and my two sons.
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What have I done wrong? There is nothing left for me except his orphans."
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Days after the attack, the villagers are still collecting the body parts,
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and children cry fearing that the bombs will come again.
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The people in the village say they are tired of the bombs and of seeing their children die.
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"There is no Al-Qaeda here. No Taliban", they say.
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To me, what I wrote about recently, is I think the central problem is a lack of empathy.
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My biggest wish is that every American in sort of a national collective exercise
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would spend just 10 minutes thinking about the following question, which is:
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Suppose there was a Muslim country
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that invaded the US with a 150,000 troops
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and proceeded to occupy our country for the next 8 years, dropped bombs on wedding parties,
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slaughtered men, women and children who were innocent, created prisons in our country
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where they arrested American citizens and put us for years without charges,
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created an overseas island prisons where they shipped some of us to there
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without any recourse whatsoever, and at the same time were threatening to do that
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to several other western countries, how much rage and anger
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and a desire for vengeance and violence would we feel towards that country
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that was doing that to us? I mean, just look at what a
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singular one day attack at 9/11, the kind of anger and rage it unleashed.
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And I think if Americans were to think about how we would react towards other countries and what we would want to do to them,
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if they were doing to us what we are now doing to them. I think
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a lot of light would be shined on what it is that we're really achieving in terms of our national security.
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"Oh, shit!"
"Oh my God! Holy shit!"
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"Lord, please let it stop. Please let it stop-"
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"Shit! Oh God, don't let the next one be any closer, just let 'em stop, Lord."
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"?!? No way!"
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As acknowledged by Robert Grenier,
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a former CIA counter-terrorism head,
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the inevitable result of bombing foreign countries
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is actually to increase, not decrease,
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the number of people who are willing not only to defend their homelands with force,
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but who may even engage in actual terrorism against the US.
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If Grenier and other counter-terrorism experts are correct,
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the drone strikes and other violent forms of counter-insurgency,
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are actually creating more enemies, rather than less.
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Why are other options not being pursued?
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To ask this question, is perhaps to miss the entire point.
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"War", said General Smedley Butler, "is a racket."
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Without enemies, there can be no war.
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And without war, there can be no
military-industrial-intelligence complex.
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Security is tight.
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Secret service agents flank the presidential candidates, on the lookout for trouble.
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Meanwhile, out in San Diego harbor,
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a secret and elite Navy corps patrols the dark waters on red alert.
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But the soldiers in this unit aren't human.
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They're dolphins!
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This is the Nano Hummingbird, it's been in development for 4 and a half years
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and it was funded by DARPA, which is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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and they fund the, kind of, extreme R&D
(research and development) projects for US military.
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The idea of this, it would be a small, covert,
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unmanned surveillance aircraft that could do unique missions,
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flying outdoors, as well as indoors. It has a video camera
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and the unique part of it is it uses flapping wings for both propulsion and control,
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and it has the capability of flying in forward flight, as well as in hover flight.
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So, it can actually cover in place, it could hover outside of a window,
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as well as flying in forward flight, going from point A to point B fairly rapidly.
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With the bird body and the video camera and the transmitter, this flies for up to about 5 minutes.
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It has a speed range of up to 11 mph,
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it can fly sideways, it can rotate on its axis,
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it actually can fly backwards up to 5 mph, which is very unique.
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It has a range of about a 100 yards or so for the communications.
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There are no immediate uses for the Nano Hummingbird by the military right now, it has a long ways to go.
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The aircraft will either be a useful surveillance aircraft on its own,
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or it might be that just the technology, that elements that we've developed for this get
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integrated into other drones and other aircraft systems.
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So, the use could be any number of directions.
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It's not unusual to see small insects and birds flying through the air.
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So common, they often go unnoticed,
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and that's exactly how the US Air Force wants the next generation of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) - unnoticed.
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"These are vehicles and systems that are modeled after birds,
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they're about the size of a bird, they're biomimetic,
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a lot of them actually look like birds,
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so that they can be concealed in the military environment or in a military mission."
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Missions that may be too dangerous for human pilots.
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James Grimsley is the CEO of Design Intelligence, Inc.
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the Oklahoma company that is designing unmanned air vehicles
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to take on our most dangerous threats.
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"In particular, we're working with very very small vehicles, called micro air vehicles (MAVs).
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These are the vehicles that are going to be used by our military in the next 45 years for reconnaissance, surveillance,
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and just a variety of purposes and even, possibly, weapons.
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They will carry a variety of payloads from sensor to warheads, to just, you name it.
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So, we work with very, very small stuff."
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So small, they can go virtually anywhere, virtually undetected.
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In a promotional video for Design Intelligence, Inc.
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we see just how advanced the new vehicles could be.
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"It will blend in with its surroundings and operate undetected.
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MAVs will use microsensors and microprocessor technology
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to navigate and track targets through complicated terrain, such as urban areas..."
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The ability to travel complicated terrain unnoticed
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may make UAVs the new future of our military.
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"It is used to track human motions,
may make UAVs the new future of our military.
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"It is used to track human motions,
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so right now it's tracking my hands, my arms,
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my whole body gesture, actually,
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and then we interface that information to the system which allows me to, then,
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tell the vehicle exactly where to go, and I can even do things like: tell it to go up,
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do a flip,
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come to me,
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move it around in general."
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"How interested is the military in this technology?"
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"They're extremely interested.
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In the short term, it gives them a leg up on what the opponents can do. So,
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it's a way to get an advantage. But, you see, that's the problem with it too, because then it leads to an arms race.
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They develop this technology, they deploy it, then the opponents,
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they develop that technology and then deploy it, and then, before you know it,
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we have all of this technology being deployed in warfare,
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and it just, kind of, raises the overall level of how technology is used in warfare."
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"Right now, in war, for the most part, still,
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there's a human being who's making a decision whether or not to fire a weapon of any type.
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If robotics were allowed to fully develop,
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and they were autonomous - killer robots, as I like to call them -
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they would be able to be programmed, set free and make the decisions about when, where, who and how to attack."
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"A number of governments, including US, are very excited about moving in this direction.
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Very excited about taking the soldier of the battlefield and
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putting machines on the battlefield, thereby lowering casualties."
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"There's nothing in artificial intelligence or robotics
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that could discriminate between a combatant and a civilian.
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It would be impossible to tell the difference between a little girl pointing an ice cream at a robot,
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or someone pointing a rifle at it."
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"Killer robots don't exist yet.
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There are precursors, systems that can make determinations,
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but have a human who can override their decisions.
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With fully autonomous robots, you take the human out of the loop."
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"There are precursors both on the ground and in the air that are
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problematic and show the development of autonomous technologies getting into a dangerous area.
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There's a weapon called the X-47B, produced by the US. At this point,
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it's designed to refuel by itself and land on an aircraft carrier by itself.
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However, it is also designed to carry weapons
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and if it can eventually fly by itself, as is intended,
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it would also be able to identify targets and launch its weapons without any human interference."
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Samsung's intelligence surveillance and security system
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with the capability of detecting and tracking, as well as suppression,
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is designed to replace human-oriented guards, overcoming their limitations.
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"On the ground, there is a sentry robot, used by South Korea and Israel.
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The sentry operates by identifying people that enter a certain area.
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It then asks permission of a soldier back at base whether it should fire or not, if the soldier grants that permission,
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it shoots the individual.
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Our concern is that permission may not always be required.
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That a robot could fire without any human intervention."
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"If a robot goes wrong, who's accountable? It certainly won't be the robot,
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but it could be the commander who sent it off, could be the manufacturer,
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it could be the programmer who programmed the mission.
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The robot could take a bullet and its computer can go berserk.
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So there's no way of really determining who's accountable, and that's very important for the laws of war."
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"Human Rights Watch is so concerned about the dangers
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of these fully autonomous systems that, we think,
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that a preemptive comprehensive prohibition on the development
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or production of these systems needs to be enacted immediately."
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"I believe that civil society has a right and obligation
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to take action when they believe that a government or a military is
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behaving incorrectly in their name.
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That was part of what helped inspire the campaign to stop land mines, the
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coalition to stop cluster munitions, both of which were successful, of course,
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in achieving treaties.
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I know we can do the same thing with killer robots.
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I know we can stop them before they ever hit the battlefield. "
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He may be playing the harmonica now,
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but forty years ago, Frank Serpico was blowing the whistle on widespread corruption in the NY police department.
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It made him a pariah on the force,
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and he was shut during a drug bust in 1971, while screaming for his backup.
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"This is what the system wants to do.
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It wants to intimidate the good guys,
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and that's why it's so important for individuals to stand up and
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do the right thing."
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The case against the CIA has always lacked information on how precisely its officers set about their covert action.
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Philip Agee, now living in Cornwall, was such an officer.
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And his diary, to be published by Penguin in the next few weeks,
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gives his version of what life is really like inside the agency.
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He names every officer and agent he's ever met
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and describes a CIA man's work in daily detail.
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"Why should I be delicate with them?
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I don't expect any quarter in return,
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because this is part of the conflict that's going on in the world right now.
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the CIA is enforcing American economic exploitation.
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And people are dying, and people are starving, because of this system."
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My expertise, as you know, is CIA, marine corps, 3 CIA secret wars,
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I had a position in the National Security Council in 1975
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as the chief of the Angola task force, running the secret war in Angola,
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it was the third CIA secret war I was part of.
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They undertake, they run operations in every corner of the globe.
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They also undertook the license of operating, just totally above and beyond US laws,
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they had a license, if you will, to kill, but also they took that to a license
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to smuggle drugs, a license to do all kinds of things to other people
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in other societies in violation of international law, our law,
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and every principle of nations working together for a healthier and more peaceful world.
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You come up with 3,000 major operations and over 10,000 minor operations.
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Every one of them illegal.
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Every one of them disruptive of the lives and societies of other peoples,
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and many of them bloody and gory beyond comprehension almost.
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"I realize now that my previous attitude had been simply mistaken,
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that I wasn't discharging my responsibilities to the country,
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to the Constitution, to the public, or to the troops,
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by keeping those secrets which led to the escalation of the war, that that had been wrong."
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One of the most startling cases of government whistleblowing is Sibel Edmonds,
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who's been called "the most gagged woman in history".
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Sibel is an Iranian-born former FBI translator
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who has been fighting for years to tell her story, until now.
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After waiting 340 days for FBI clearance of her memoir,
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she decided to release the book on her own, in full, without any approval or redactions.
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The book gives explosive allegations that indict multiple levels of the government in traitorous deception and coverup inside the FBI.
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"After 9/11, they took one of the programs I had done - the back end part of it -
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and started to use it to spy on everybody in this country. So, that was the program they created, called Stellar Wind,
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that was separate and compartmented from the regular activity that was ongoing,
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because it was doing domestic spying.
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When all the equipment was coming in I knew something was happening. But then,
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when the contractors that I had hired came and told me what they were doing,
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it was clear where all the hardware was going and what they were using it to do."
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For the first time, 25 year old US army private Bradley Manning has admitted
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to being the source behind the largest leak of state secrets in US history.
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More than a 1,000 days after he was arrested, Manning testified Thursday, before a military court.
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He said he leaked the classified documents to the whistleblowing website Wikileaks in order to show the American public the true costs of war.
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Reading for over an hour from a 35-page statement, Manning said:
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Over the course of the hearing, Bradley Manning took responsibility for leaking the so-called
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"collateral murder video" of an Apache helicopter attack in Iraq.
477
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One individual has been punished: Bradley Manning.
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In jail, accused of leaking the video.
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The charges: downloading and disseminating classified information.
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"How could anyone justify shooting up that man,
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shooting up the person who is crawling onto the curb.
These are war crimes, pure and simple.
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When I learned to be a soldier and officer in US Army,
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I learned that you don't shoot at civilians,
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you certainly don't shoot at people trying to rescue the wounded,
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and you don't blow up vans with couple of children in them."
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In the Pentagon investigation report, there's no mention of war crimes.
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The pilots had reacted adequately.
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"Here's the government saying that "we did no wrong", but yet, they lied,
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they covered up the story. They covered up everything.
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Then, all of a sudden, being like:
"OK, well, Bradley Manning, who released this video,
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he's the wrongdoer in this whole situation."
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I think that Bradley Manning is a hero. I believe that this is a human being
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who' is compassionate, who saw illegal activities being taking place on a video,
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granted, it was a couple of years later, but still, wanted the world to see that
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these actions are intolerable and...
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Yeah, he's a hero for showing it. He's a hero for releasing it."
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"My view on Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man,
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who at, it was 22 years, did
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what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam War."
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"I started my change of views
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as late as 1973 on the Vietnam War,
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and then we progressed to the early 1990s,
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and then we progressed to 9/11, and my views steadily became
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stronger that what the CIA was doing was wrong.
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I now am ashamed
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to have ever worked there, and wish that I had not.
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Up until a couple of years ago, I found that impossible to say.
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Now, I think I must make that statement.
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"And I think that we are going to need a
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, soon.
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Not only for what our elite has done to Americans,
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but for what our elite has done in our name to the third world and...
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The USA set back national liberation and collective public intelligence by 30 years, easily.
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"I believe strongly that until we have fundamental change in the US, domestically,
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in the domestic system, until we have some kind of real
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democracy in this country - participatory democracy, where people have a say,
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and where we end the reelection of 95-97% of incumbents at every election,
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where there is a real political debate - until we change the domestic system,
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we're going to have elitist control of the US,
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we're going to have these foreign adventures and the grizzly things, as I mentioned, that the CIA does abroad.
520
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So, the real problem is here, at home."
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"I always said that no matter how big, or how much corruption there is,
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never greater than the individual, or the might of doing the right thing."
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"A rat, if you turn a light - a bright light - in the rat's face,
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and he'll run for cover.
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And it doesn't make any difference whether that rat is in the city dump, or in the city hall."
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