Jeremy Scahill Tells Us How He Uncovered America's Massive, Global Dirty Wars

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http://www.businessinsider.com/jeremy-scahill-talks-dirty-wars-black-ops-2013-7



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Here's an abridged version of the interview:

Business Insider: How did you get the idea to produce a movie along with the book?

Jeremy Scahill: At the beginning the premise of the film was looking at Obama’s War, and he had campaigned on this premise to surge troops in Afghanistan, and to be more aggressive in going after al Qaeda and other terrorist networks, and we saw that there was this real spike in night raids happening in Afghanistan, and so the initial idea was that we were going to go there and kind of just look at as many incidents as we could.

Just try to figure out who’s being killed, where’s the intelligence coming from, who’s doing the actual killing; and so as we started to investigate this series of raids and compile information about it, and then learn that the main force behind the night raid policy in Afghanistan was JSOC, then the investigation became more global. So it started as something that was going to be primarily focused on Afghanistan, and then ended up with a much wider scope.

BI: And to our knowledge this was the first time you’ve done a full-length documentary.

Scahill: Yeah, I’ve never done anything like this before, I mean, [Director Rick Rowley] and I made ... we did a couple of shorter video projects together, but I’ve never made a film before, and I don’t know that I’ll ever make a film again. I don’t think of myself as a filmmaker at all.



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1. Looking forward to this.

[Cleita]

2. He's probably going to end up in the same frying pan as Glen Greenwald and

Michael Hastings for trying to report some unsavory truths. Steven Colbert played devil's advocate with him last night. They laughed but the questions Steven asked were chilling showing what he could be up against.

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3. +1