drone program, whom he says has been communicating with the Intercept's Jeremy Scahill. The final scene of the film " Citizenfour," directed by Intercept co-founder Laura Poitras, shows fellow Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald meeting with Snowden in Moscow to tell him about a new source with information about the U.S. Reports first surfaced in the fall of last year that the Intercept, a news site created in part to analyze and publish the remaining cache of Snowden NSA documents, had found a second source of highly classified information. And by ‘we,’ I mean every American citizen who has access to this information now, but continues to do nothing about it." "This outrageous explosion of watchlisting-of monitoring people and racking and stacking them on lists, assigning them numbers, assigning them ‘baseball cards,’ assigning them death sentences without notice, on a worldwide battlefield-it was, from the very first instance, wrong,” the source tells the Intercept. But unlike the leaks of Snowden or Manning, the spilled classified materials are accompanied by statements about the whistleblower's motivation in his or her own words. A spokesperson for the investigative news site declined to comment on that source. 1Īll of this new information, according to the Intercept, appears to have come from a single anonymous whistleblower. The revelations about the CIA and Joint Special Operations Command actions include primary source evidence that as many as 90 percent of US drone killings in one five month period weren't the intended target, that a former British citizen was killed in a drone strike despite repeated opportunities to capture him instead, and details of the grisly process by which the American government chooses who will die, down to the "baseball cards" of profile information created for individual targets, and the chain of authorization that goes up directly to the president. On Thursday the Intercept published a groundbreaking new collection of documents related to America's use of unmanned aerial vehicles to kill foreign targets in countries ranging from Afghanistan to Yemen.
Now there appears to be a new source on that scale of classified leaks-this time with a focus on drones. It's been just over two years since Edward Snowden leaked a massive trove of NSA documents, and more than five since Chelsea Manning gave WikiLeaks a megacache of military and diplomatic secrets.