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Killing is. because we are literally targeting sim cards and blowing up whoevers attached to hem. joining me now, jeremy scahill, just started up a new digital magazine called "the intercept" and also writer and producer of the film "dirty wars." nominated for an academy award based on his book by the same name. i think i understand basically what youre saying, were actually targeting sim cards. the thing were targeting, going after and sending a drone strike at is a cell phone, essentially, a c...

Magazine called "the intercept" and also writer and producer of the film "dirty wars." nominated for an academy award based on his book by the same name. i think i understand basically what youre saying, were actually targeting sim cards. the thing were targeting, going after and sending a drone strike at is a cell phone, essentially, a chip inside a cell phone, opposed to this individual is 27 and know trained here and there. >> we have a new source who worked with the nsa and was a drone opera...

Mouthed bitch, can we please as politicians, as human beings tone it down? come on. thanks for watching, everybody. stay tuned. "around the world" is coming up next. next. have yourself a lovely weekend. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com three big stories were following right now. reports the u.s. spied on our allies is infuriating europe. germanys chancellor says it is severely shaken the trust and fueling calls for legal limits how espionage is carried out. and a man on a train overhea...

Suzanne. >> carl, thank you. we should note the other couple, the roma couple in greece that they have been charged with abducting little baby maria. they are in custody now. so it is a very complicated situation and opened up a number of investigations looking at adoptions and how they are done in greece. a drone operator who dropped bombs from behind a computer in the u.s. says fighting wars like this is wrong. >> all the drone operators, they get a bad rap and they need someone to talk how ...

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>> the weapons are very precise, but at the end of the day, its a human determination of who gets attacked and who gets droned. and you have people who are looking at lots of intelligence, but they are trying to read the intentions of somebody in waziristan before theyve taken an action. >> this is more detailed information, this is a more detailed list than anybody outside the government has ever seen about how those -- what those things are that we have done, where we did them, and why we thin...

Under court order to fork over information on all the calls in its systems to the agency, both within the u.s. and between the u.s. and other countries. to be clear, its the phone data that the government is getting, not the content of the calls. a senior administration official speaking on the condition of anonymity defended the practice as a critical tool of protecting the nation from terrorist threats. >> hurts the obama administration by feeding in to this belief that this government is too ...

Terrorist we should kill. >> and that person would get listed as other militants killed? >> or foreign fighter, or they might, in this case, list them as al qaeda if they think they have enough evidence to link them to al qaeda, but its subjective. >> yeah. >> the weapons are very precise, but at the end of the day, its a human determination of who gets attacked and who gets droned. and you have people who are looking at lots of intelligence, but they are trying to read the intentions of somebod...

Terrorist we should kill. >> and that person would get listed as other militants killed? >> or foreign fighter, or they might, in this case, list them as al qaeda if they think they have enough evidence to link them to al qaeda, but its subjective. >> yeah. >> the weapons are very precise, but at the end of the day, its a human determination of who gets attacked and who gets droned. and you have people who are looking at lots of intelligence, but they are trying to read the intentions of somebod...

Machines. we already have the robot killers. the question is the autonomy. >> what we are stalking about here is the difference between the two is somebody gets pt sd with the mindful robot killing. my instinct is fear sky net and the other is fear a drone operator. the next is no more war because i am a peace hippie. >> and your fourth is you want to have sex with a fembot. >> i could go for chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. >> you could admit that it could minimize stuff like collateral d...