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Today, researchers at the law schools of New York University and Stanford University published an important and comprehensively documented about the human and strategic costs of the United States鈥� drone program in Pakistan. The report marshals research based on interviews of victims, witnesses, medical experts, and journalists in Pakistan, and a review of thousands of pages of documents and media reports, to arrive at its chief conclusions:

Far more civilians have been killed by American drone strikes in Pakistan than U.S. officials have been willing to acknowledge;
The government鈥檚 use of drones is a source of daily, incessant emotional and psychological terror to Pakistani civilians; and
The drone program has been 鈥渄amaging and counterproductive鈥� to the United States鈥� national security by turning the Pakistani public against U.S. policy.

The report, titled 鈥淟iving Under Drones,鈥� refutes the government鈥檚 ongoing attempt to tell a one-sided story to the public about its use of unmanned drones in Pakistan and elsewhere. As the report explains, U.S. officials publicly describe the drone program 鈥渋n terms of its unprecedented ability to 鈥榙istinguish . . . effectively between an al Qaeda terrorist and innocent civilians,鈥欌�� and have sought to establish a narrative according to which drones are 鈥渃apable of conducting strikes with 鈥榓stonishing鈥� and 鈥榮urgical鈥� precision.鈥� In the words of the report, and as we have argued and sought to expose, 鈥淸t]his narrative is false.鈥�

The report rejects the U. S. government鈥檚 claims to the public that there have been few or even 鈥溾�� as a result of American drone strikes in Pakistan. (Based on data compiled by the UK鈥檚 , the report estimates that there have been 474 to 884 civilian deaths as a result of drone strikes since 2004, including 176 children.) And equally important, it details many of the unseen and often-unreported costs of the government鈥檚 use of drones: 鈥淒rones hover twenty-four hours a day over communities in northwest Pakistan, striking homes, vehicles, and public spaces without warning. Their presence terrorizes men, women, and children, giving rise to anxiety and psychological trauma among civilian communities.鈥� (Watch a video about the creation of the report, and some of its findings, below.)

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The report comes a week after the government refused, in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the 老澳门开奖结果, to confirm or deny that the CIA鈥檚 drone killing program even exists. Last week, we to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that the CIA鈥檚 secrecy claim is untenable given statements by senior government officials discussing details of the program. As Judge Merrick Garland put it at the oral argument, the government is insisting that 鈥渢he emperor has clothes, even when the emperor鈥檚 boss鈥� has repeatedly acknowledged otherwise.

Both today鈥檚 report and our lawsuit make clear that the gap between what the government wants to tell the public about drones and what independent academics, journalists, and researchers have documented has now become a chasm.

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