Leaving the Killing to Computers
The Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine, Andrew Cockburn, tells Jon Stewart about the increasingly technologically dependent and hands-off process that American officials use to kill militants and, inadvertently, civilians in other countries.The Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine, Andrew Cockburn, tells Jon Stewart about the increasingly technologically dependent and hands-off process that American officials use to kill militants and, inadvertently, civilians in other countries.
Cockburn is author of the new book “Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins.”
— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.
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