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‘When you mess up, people die’: civilians who are drone pilots’ extra eyes
Screeners spend hours looking for anything suspicious to pass to crafts’ missile controllers, yet one in 10 are employed not by the Pentagon but by private firms. By Abigail Fielding-Smith and Crofton Black.
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Private firms at heart of US drone warfare
Corporate staff are reviewing top-secret data and helping uniformed colleagues decide whether people under surveillance are enemies or civilians. By Abigail Fielding-Smith, Crofton Black, Alice Ross and James Ball.
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"In a May 2013 speech, Obama indicated that drone strikes were only permissible when the administration possessed “near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured, the highest standard we can set”."