Whether or not Obama is fully aware of the errors built into the program of 'targeted assassination', he and his top advisors have repeatedly made clear that the president himself directly oversees the drone operation and takes full responsibility for it.
The Erik Wemple Blog asked Greenwald about the language in an interview this afternoon. “What we’re trying to do is use the accurate term rather than the euphemistic term that the government wants us to use,” says Greenwald, noting that “most media outlets wouldn’t do it.” Greenwald and his colleagues at First Look didn’t “discuss it much,” he says. “But I think everybody understood it was the right headline because of the accuracy issue.” READ MORE
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