The Drone Papers is a leak of national security documents published by ''

The Intercept ''The Intercept'' is an American left-wing news website founded by Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Laura Poitras and funded by billionaire eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar. Its current editor is Betsy Reed. The publication initially reported ...

'' in October 2015 on the United States's use of

drone warfare Drone warfare is a form of aerial warfare using unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAV) or weaponized commercial unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The United States, United Kingdom, Israel, China, South Korea, Iran, Italy, France, India, Pakis ...

. The leak revealed the bureaucratic process of approving a drone strike. In one five-month period, the primary sources showed that 90 percent of United States drone killings were "not the intended targets".

Response

Micah Zenko Micah Zenko is an American political scientist. He is Whitehead Senior Fellow on the US and Americas Programme at Chatham House. He is author of two books. Education Micah Zenko earned a PhD from the Department of Politics at Brandeis University ...

of ''

Foreign Policy A State (polity), state's foreign policy or external policy (as opposed to internal or domestic policy) is its objectives and activities in relation to its interactions with other states, unions, and other political entities, whether bilaterall ...

'' wrote that the Drone Papers "mandate a Congressional investigation" but did not expect one to happen during the Obama administration.

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* News leaks Whistleblowing in the United States Investigative journalism United States foreign policy Drone warfare {{US-mil-stub