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Jeremy Scahill: WikiLeaks Docs Helped Me Expose the U.S. "Dirty Wars"

3,203 views · Published 24 April 2013 · 1:52 · Indexed 14 November 2026

Channel: Democracy Now! · 2013 · News & Politics

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Watch the full interview with Jeremy Scahill on Democracy Now! at http://owl.li/knEmh. Jeremy Scahill, author of the new book, "Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield," has spent years covering secret U.S. warfare through drone strikes, targeted killings, and enlisting foreign militias in countries from Somalia to Pakistan. Speaking to Democracy Now!, Scahill says U.S. diplomatic cables released WikiLeaks were instrumental in researching the book. "In terms of understanding how the covert apparatus works, WikiLeaks was indispensable," he says. "We're going to look back decades from now and realize that because of the release of those documents, there was a huge shift in how we understand some of the more hidden aspects of U.S. policy."

Watch the 50-minute Part 1 of our interview with Jeremy Scahill at http://owl.li/klnWN.

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