Stimson Center Drones Policy Report and Recommendations cited in Times Union

Last year I saw the powerful play by George Brant, GROUNDED, in New York City and suddenly understood that even though the pilots of American drones “fly” the planes from desks in the US, they too can become victims of drone warfare. I’m excited that this much acclaimed play is now in the Capital Region for 5 performances in the next month.

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Mark Mazetti reported in a June 26, 2014 New York Times article that the Stimson Center’s bi-partisan panel of former CIA and Pentagon officials concluded, “The Obama administration’s embrace of targeted killings using armed drones risks putting the United States on a ‘slippery slope’ into perpetual war and sets a dangerous precedent for lethal operations that other countries might adopt in the future.”

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