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Part 2: Ted Cruz Taps Anti-Muslim Neocon Adviser; Scahill on US Drones & "Crowd Killing" in Somalia
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21:16Now PlayingWe continue our conversation with The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill and national security reporter Matthew Cole, who examines Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s pick of rightwing neoconservative Frank Gaffney as a foreign policy adviser. Gaffney has a history of Islamic fearmongering, and Cole says his "incendiary and false" views shaped Cruz’s call to monitor Muslim neighborhoods after the Brussels attacks.
Scahill responds to the Obama administration’s announcement that it will for the first time release tallies of the number of people it believes it has killed in drone strikes in countries that lie outside of conventional war zones. "Whatever the White House releases is going to have a stunningly low number of civilians that were killed," he says, noting the U.S. considers anyone it kills in a drone strike an "enemy killed in action" unless later determined otherwise. "This shouldn’t really be taken seriously as an indicator of how many innocent or unknown people have been killed in these drone strikes."
He also discusses claims that U.S. coalition forces killed Haji Imam, a major ISIS commander, earlier this month. Defense officials say Imam was a senior religious leader of the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Syria.
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