Stephen Lewis

Stephen Lewis, 29, who controlled the cameras on the drones that helped guide Hellfire missiles into their targets, said he “drank [himself] to sleep” every night after getting home from work. “It was the culture there,” he said. “Everybody did something to take the edge off — to reform reality so you didn’t have to think about what you did.”

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2015-12-15 Former Drone Pilots Denounce ‘Morally Outrageous’ Program

2015-11-18 Obama’s drone war a ‘recruitment tool’ for Isis, say US air force whistleblowers

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Keagan Miller

Keagan Miller is a Navy veteran (’09-’13) who worked at NSA Georgia as a CTT in support of various missions with NSA, CIA and Special Forces including the Libya mission in 2011, anti-piracy missions in Somalia and drone strikes in Yemen. Since leaving the military, Keagan has worked with Non-profits in Portland helping homeless veterans, and currently works at the county level as Case Manager for a Permanent Supportive Housing program for chronically homeless veterans. He is very passionate about anti-interventionism and co-operative foreign relations.

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2021-11-17 National Bird – Drone warfare w/ Lisa Ling – Ep 108

2021-10-27 (Ep. 9) The Drone Whistleblowers feat. Lisa Ling, Cian Westmoreland, Keagan Miller & Christopher Aaron

2021-10-04 The Kabul Strike: Drone Whistleblowers Speak Out On How Normal It’s Become To Kill Muslims

2021-09-30 The Kabul strike, Drone Whistleblowers React On August 29, 2021, a US drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan killed 10 civilians, including 7 children. While the Pentagon initially insisted it was “righteous strike,” they backtracked after media investigations exposed their statements as false.

For years drone whistleblowers have tried to alert the world to the high civilian cost of the US drone program. Yet, while the media and decision makers are reckoning with the Kabul strike, the voices of drone whistleblowers have been conspicuously absent from these national discussions.

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Lisa Ling

Lisa Ling is one of the U.S. drone whistleblowers profiled in the terrific movie National Bird. Ling is a former technical sergeant on drone surveillance systems, grew up in California and initially joined the military as an army medic and nurse. When it became apparent that she was adept with computers, she transferred to a combat communications squadron, which later became a so-called intelligence squadron. Her final deployment as a technical sergeant was to Beale Air Force Base, California, where she worked on the Distributed Ground System (DGS), a weapons system that makes use of drones to collect vast amounts of data to find and kill targets. Like other whistleblowers featured in the film, Ling had a top-secret clearance.

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National Bird follows the dramatic journey of three whistleblowers who are determined to break the silence around one of the most controversial current affairs issues of our time: the secret U.S. drone war. At the center of the film are three U.S. military veterans. Plagued by guilt over participating in the killing of faceless people in foreign countries, they decide to speak out publicly, despite the possible consequences.

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2021-11-17 National Bird – Drone warfare w/ Lisa Ling – Ep 108

2021-10-27 (Ep. 9) The Drone Whistleblowers feat. Lisa Ling, Cian Westmoreland, Keagan Miller & Christopher Aaron

2017-07-26 Whistleblower calls out problems with military drone accuracy and ethics

2017-06-13 Talk Nation Radio: Lisa Ling on Killer Drones

2016-07-01 Former US drone technicians speak out against programme in Brussels

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Christopher Aaron

Christopher Aaron worked for the CIA on the U.S. drone program. After a while, he began realizing how wrong it is and quit. Finally, he gathered up his courage and began speaking out publicly, despite little or no protection under the Whistleblower Protection Act.

Former CIA counter-terrorism officer Chris Aaron concludes after his experience in the drone program that: “We absolutely are sowing the seeds for the next round of people to hate us.” There is “a lot of guess work” involved in drone targeting he says, and he believes that “we are essentially setting ourselves up for what we would have to call a perpetual war.”

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Christopher Aaron (@iGlobaIGoId) / Twitter (suspended) Former CIA drone officer, turned anti-war advocate @NYTimes cover story: https://t.co/Pt0376h8oW. Seeker of expanded human potential.

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2021-12-21 What modern drone warfare means for both civilians and soldiers

2021-09-04 A CIA drone analyst apologizes to the people of Afghanistan

2016-06-24 2016 Interfaith Conference on Drone Warfare: Faithful Witness in a Time of Endless War Drone Warfare and God’s Call to Peacemaking. Session includes: Medea Benjamin, activist, co-founder of Code Pink and author of Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control; Christopher Aaron, former CIA Drone Program who resigned over ethical concerns and Bob Smith coordinator of the Brandywine Peace Community. Recorded June 24, 2016.

2016-05-05 Truth and Justice Radio: Blowing the whistle on the U.S. drone program

2016-04 10 Multifaith Anti-Drone Conference – Session 1 This discussion followed a screening of the 2014 documentary “Drone,” and features whistleblower Christopher Aaron, Kambale Musavuli (Friends of the Congo), and ex-CIA officer Ray McGovern.

2016-03-30 Inside Drone Warfare Symposium – Chris Aaron “Inside Drone Warfare: Perspectives of Whistleblowers, Families of Drone Victims and Their Lawyers,” was a symposium held at the Boyd Law School at UNLV on March 30th, 2016. The event was organized by Veterans For Peace and Knowdrones.com and was open to the public.

2016-03-30 At UNLV, whistleblowers call for accountability in military drone program

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Michael Haas 

When Michael Haas, a former senior airman with the US air force, looks back on the missions he flew over Afghanistan and other conflict zones in a six-year career operating military drones, one of the things he remembers most vividly is the colorful language airmen would use to describe their targets. The aim of the missions was to track, and when the conditions were deemed right, kill suspected insurgents. That’s not how they put it, though. They would talk about “cutting the grass before it grows out of control”, or “pulling the weeds before they overrun the lawn”.

Haas is one of four former air force drone operators and technicians who as a group have come forward to the Guardian to register their opposition to the ongoing reliance on the technology as the US military’s modern weaponry of choice.  The targeted killings of hundreds of people in conflict zones – many of them almost certainly civilians.

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2016-03-14 9 Things We Learned from Pissed Off Drone Operators

2015-12-07 Former Drone Pilots Denounce ‘Morally Outrageous’ Program

2015-11-19 FORMER DRONE OPERATORS SAY THEY WERE “HORRIFIED” BY CRUELTY OF ASSASSINATION PROGRAM

2015-11-09 Life as a drone operator: ‘Ever step on ants and never give it another thought?’

2014-04-17 Former Drone Operators Reveal Air Force Plays Key Role in Secret CIA Assassination Campaign

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Drone Activists

Chris Antal

Christopher Aaron

Medea Benjamin

Brandon Bryant

Marjorie Cohn

Nick Davies

Daniel Hale

Michael Haas 

Lisa Ling

Stephen Lewis

Kathleen McClellan (Lawyer) pending

Ray McGovern

Keagan Miller

Nick Mottern

Bill Quigley

Archbishop John C. Wester

Cian Westmoreland

S. Brian Willson

Ann Wright

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Cian Westmoreland

Cian Westmoreland’s Articles on Real News Network

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2021-10-27 The Drone Whistleblowers feat. Lisa Ling, Cian Westmoreland, Keagan Miller & Christopher Aaron

2020-11-19 School of Resistance—Episode Ten: Speaking the Truth is Not a Crime Will Free Speech Save Our Democracy? With Ece Temelkuran, Cian Westmoreland, and Renata Ávila

2019-04-26 U.S. Air Force drone tech turned human rights activist speaks at UO

2017-04-17 Network Centric Warfare: Diffused of Responsibility · Cian Westmoreland

2016-12-27 The Global Assassination Grid: The Infrastructure and People behind Drone Killings

2016-10-21 Former Drone Technician Cian Westmoreland on the Harsh Realities of Drone Warfare

2016-09-21 Interview with drone tech Cian Westmoreland

2016-04-28 Inside Drone Warfare Symposium – Cian Westmoreland

2016-04-20 Whistleblower’s Review of “Eye in the Sky”

2015-12-29 IS INCREASED DRONE WARFARE INEVITABLE?

2015-12-28 FROM DRONE TECHNICIAN TO WHISTLEBLOWER

2015-12-15 Former Drone Pilots Denounce ‘Morally Outrageous’ Program

2015-11-19 Drone Strikes Fuel the Hatred that Led to Paris Attacks, Ex-Drone Pilots Say

2015-11-18 Obama’s drone war a ‘recruitment tool’ for Isis, say US air force whistleblowers

2015 ‘It Feels Like Murder’ talks about the indiscriminate targeting that means that civilians are dying

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Brandon Bryant

Brandon Bryant (whistleblower): He is an American whistleblower who exposed the U.S. military’s drone program and its civilian casualties. He worked as a camera operator for the Predator drones from 2006 to 2011, and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. He has spoken out about his experience and the ethical issues of drone warfare in various media outlets and forums123He has also been involved in local politics in his hometown of Missoula, Montana, where he faced charges for allegedly threatening city council members in a YouTube video2.

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Brandon Bryant the Documentary: Drones & Deceptions Full length & free documentary look at the story, myth, and character of former drone operator, Brandon Bryant; poster child of the documentary DRONE from Tonje Hessen Schei, as narrated by a former drone pilot himself, Maj Rick Rynearson (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb…. This documentary explores how frauds like Brandon and Cian Westmoreland capitalize on secrecy to mislead the public, bolstered by unethical lawyers like Jesselyn Radack.

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2013-10-22 Confessions of a Drone Warrior

2013-07-13 Jury acquits man accused of threatening Missoula City Council

2021-02-03 The Corrupt Use of Military Drones | Brandon Bryant

2020-03-30 DRONE WHISTLEBLOWER CHARGED WITH MAKING ONLINE THREATS TO CITY COUNCIL — BUT SOME OF ITS MEMBERS WANT THE CASE DROPPED

2020-02-11 Freedom for Brandon Bryant – GoFundme

2020-02-09 Former US Drone Operator Describes American Military as ‘Worse Than Nazis’

2020-02-07 Former US drone operator recalls dropping a missile on Afghanistan children and says military is ‘worse than the Nazis’

2020-02-06 DEATH FROM ABOVE I killed a child with a drone and watched them die – but my superiors claimed it was ‘just a dog’

2020-02-05 Missoula man threatens to “exterminate” the City Council

2016-02-18 The Untold Casualties of the Drone War

2015-11-20 “Numbing & Horrible”: Former Drone Operator Brandon Bryant on His Haunting First Kill

2015-10-15 Germany’s role in the US drone war

2015-08-06 A Former Drone Pilot’s Guilt Kept Him Awake at Night

2014-04-14 Federal Judge Dismisses Suit Challenging Drone Strikes That Killed Americans

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Chris Antal

Brandon Bryant

Nick Davies

Bill Quigley

Archbishop John C. Wester

Cian Westmoreland

S. Brian Willson

Ann Wright

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Archbishop John C. Wester

John C. Wester (born November 5, 1950) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in New Mexico since 2015. He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City in Utah from 2007 to 2015 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in California from 1998 to 2007.

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2023-07-28 Nuclear Disarmament & The Archdiocese of Santa Fe

2023-03-19 Archbishop apologizes for priest abuse

2022-11-30 Archbishop Wester’s pastoral letter boosts nuclear disarmament efforts

2022-01-28 Wester’s powerful letter part of hopeful trend: bishops arguing for nonviolence

2021-03-31 Two Catholic bishops join LGBT group to condemn discrimination against transgender people

2018- 02-25 Wester: The arch-activist

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