The former US National Security Agency's executive says Washington's assassination campaign has killed far more civilians than reported.
Thomas Drake said America’s mass assassination program - that has mostly stayed in the dark over the years - has led to untold number of civilian casualties. On Wednesday a new series of secret documents related to the U-S military’s “kill-capture” program were revealed by news organization The Intercept. Based on the documents, the US military has conducted a 14-year-long program targeting high-value individuals that has led to the death of few terrorists and far more number of innocent civilians. Top secret documents show that in a period of 14 months, 85 percent of the people killed by US drone strikes in Afghanistan were civilians. The US army simply categorizes the killed civilians as enemy killed in action.