[SDCPJ] Game of Drones: New from Jeremy Scahill

New from Jeremy Scahill! This is a joint investigation with the German news magazine Der Spiegel.

GERMANY IS THE TELL-TALE HEART OF AMERICA'S DRONE WAR

BY JEREMY SCAHILL 

@jeremyscahill

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This is a joint investigation with the German news magazine Der Spiegel.

A TOP-SECRET U.S. intelligence document obtained by The Interceptconfirms that the sprawling U.S. military base in Ramstein, Germany serves as the high-tech heart of America's drone program. Ramstein is the site of a satellite relay station that enables drone operators in the American Southwest to communicate with their remote aircraft in Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and other targeted countries. The top-secret slide deck, dated July 2012, provides the most detailed blueprint seen to date of the technical architecture used to conduct strikes with Predator and Reaper drones.   

 Read article:  https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/17/ramstein/

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