Friday, December 02, 2016

President Obama Pardon Chelsea Manning-She Must Not Die In Jail-A Story Goes With It

President Obama Pardon Chelsea Manning-She Must Not Die In Jail-A Story Goes With It   




Click on link to White House Petition calling on President Obama to commute Chelsea Manning's sentence  to time served. 


https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/commute-chelsea-mannings-sentence-time-served-1

By Fritz Taylor

[The organization that the two men, Ralph Morse and Bartlett Webber, in the story below belong to, Veterans for Peace, has been a long-time supporter of the struggle for freedom for heroic whistle-blower Chelsea Manning. Veterans for Peace has supported Chelsea since the organization found out in the summer of 2010 through Courage to Resist, an organization dedicated to publicizing the plight of military resisters, that she had been arrested and through a long process wound up in solitary confinement down at the Quantico Marine Base south of Washington in Virginia charged with releasing hundreds of thousands of documents via Wiki-leaks to a candid world. After being held for pre-trial confinement for over three years during which due to in part at least to a public outcry she was transferred to Leavenworth Ms. Manning (Private if you prefer her rank) had been convicted and sentenced to a thirty-five year sentence as a result of being court-martialed in the summer of 2013 and is currently being held in the all-male barracks at Fort Leavenworth out on the prairies of Kansas.     

Ralph and Bart first heard about the case in the fall of 2010 when they received an e-mail from the American Civil Liberties Union announcing a forum to be held at Boston University to publicize the case. They both attended that forum and as a result have been ever since involved one way or another in her defense. There were many reasons why this case had appealed to them personally but the strongest reason was that they were “paying their dues” as Bart put it while speaking about the case one Saturday afternoon at a vigil for Chelsea at historic Park Street Station on the Boston Common for not having had the courage during their own military service during the Vietnam War to “buck the system.” For a long time as they were doing their respective peace activist works through various organizations earlier and VFP lately they had no opportunity to get involved in a military resister case so once this case surfaced they were “all in.” The last time I checked they were still “all in.” That will tell you something about them and about the importance of the Chelsea Manning case, especially as now as the long drag of her sentence and her environment has worn her down and she has attempted suicide twice in the past few months. So the “she must not die in jail” in the headline is not a rhetorical flourish. Not at all. F.T.]       


“You know it is a crying shame that the Chelsea Manning case has fallen beneath the cracks, that her plight as the only woman prisoner in an all-male prison out there in the wheat fields of Kansas, out at Leavenworth has been ignored except an occasional news note or yet another petition for President Obama to do the right thing like he has with the drug cases and pardon her, to commute her sentence to time served, to the six plus years she has already been tossed away behind the walls,” yelled Ralph Morse over to Bart Webber while they were preparing to set up a banner proclaiming that very idea as part of a birthday vigil for Chelsea on her 29th birthday on this cold December day. (Ralph thought to himself while he was yelling over to Bart that he would never get over those basic training drill sergeants during his time in the military during the Vietnam War, never get over being spooked by them that if you did not toe the mark you would wind up in Leavenworth and here he was supporting a young transgender whistleblower who did what he should have done but cowered to those redneck drill sergeants. Well even 60-somethings can learn a thing or two from the younger crowd.)

“Yeah, between the fact that she had to in order to protect herself against maltreatment from a bunch of goddam threatening guards who told her to “man up” at Leavenworth after she was convicted and sentenced to those hard thirty-five years in 2013 “come out” as a transgender woman and the overriding blow-up over the Snowden revelations which took all the air out of any other whistle-blower case Chelsea got the short end of the stick,” replied Bart also yelling his comment against both the windy day and the constant stream of loonies, crazies and con men and women who populated the environs around the Park Street subway station at Boston Common on any given Saturday between the hours of one and two in the afternoon when the space, or part of it, was given over to  peace action groups and other left-wing political organizations.               

Ralph thought to himself as he cut a few wind holes in the banner proclaiming the need for President Obama to grant Chelsea her pardon that he had come a long way (and Bart too) since the fall of 2010 when they learned that Chelsea (then using her birth name Bradley but we will use her chosen name and assume everybody understands we are talking about the same person) was being held essentially incommunicado down at the Quantico Marine Base (strange since Chelsea was in the Army) in solitary and their organization, Veterans for Peace, had called for demonstrations to have her released even then, or at least taken out of solitary and stop being tortured (no small “peacenik” charge since the appropriate United Nations rapporteur had made such a finding in her case). Ralph and Bart had been among the very first to set up a rally (not at Park Street but in Davis Square over in Somerville where Bart had lived for the previous decade) and they had been committed to her defense ever since. (Their own admittedly sorry response to “their” war, Vietnam, by in Ralph’s case joining the Army and in Bart’s case by accepting induction into that same Army had caused then after the fact, after their military service to “get religion” on the questions of war and peace. They saw the Chelsea case as pay-back to a real hero, maybe the only hero of the Iraq War and had worked like seven dervishes on the case. More importantly had kept the faith even after the case inevitably went off the front pages and became a cypher to the general population.)           

Both men had agreed once the fanfare had died down that along with keeping the case in the public eye as best they could they would commemorate two milestones in Chelsea’s live yearly-the anniversary of her incarceration by the government now over six years in May and her birthday in December (her 29th ). That was why Ralph and Bart were struggling with the downtown winds to put their banner in place. These days they were not taking the overall lead in setting up such events but had responded to a call by the Queer Strike Force to do so and they were following that organization’s lead to rally and to make one last desperate push to get Chelsea a pardon. Everybody agreed, willingly or not, that under the impending Dump the Trump regime that Chelsea’s chances of a pardon were about zero, maybe less. So the rally. And so too the desperation in Ralph and Bart’s own minds that the slogan their fellow VFPer Frank Jackman had coined-“we will not leave our sister behind” would now fall on deaf ears, that she would face at least four, maybe eight years of hard ass prison time-time to be served as a man in a woman’s body when the deal went down. Worse that Chelsea had already attempted twice earlier in the year to commit suicide and the hard fact emblazoned in the added sentence on their banner-“she must not die in jail” had added urgency.        

Ralph and Bart had met down in Washington in 1971 after both had been discharged from the Army and had gotten up some courage, with some prompting from their respective very anti-war girlfriends, to go down and get arrested during the May Day actions when in another desperate situation they tried to help shut down the government if it would not shut down the war-the Vietnam War. They had been through a lot over the years in the struggle to keep the peace message alive and well despite the endless wars, and despite the near zero visibility on the subject over the previous ten plus years.

Both had grown up in very working class neighborhood respectively Troy in upstate New York and Riverdale out about thirty miles west of Boston and had followed the neighborhood crowds unthinkingly in accepting their war and participating in the war machine when it came their time. So no way in 1968,1969 say could either have projected that they would hit their sixties standing out in the lonesome corners of the American public square defending an Army private who in many quarters was considered a traitor and who moreover was gay. In the old days the best term they could think of to describe their respective attitudes toward gays was “faggot and dyke”-Jesus. (That whole gay issue was already well known to them from some information provided by agents of Courage to Resist, the organization which was the main conduit for publicity about the case and for financing Chelsea’s legal defenses. They also were aware through those same agents about Chelsea’s sexual identity which all partisans and Chelsea herself had agreed to keep on the “low” in order not get that issue confused with her heroic whistle-blower actions during trial and only later revealed by her publicly as a matter of self-defense as mentioned above.)     

Later that night after the birthday vigil was over and Ralph and Bart were sitting at Jack’s over in Cambridge near where Bart lives (Ralph still lived in Troy) having a few shots to ward away the cold of the day’s events both had been a bit morose. The event had gone as well as could be expected on a political prisoner case that was three years removed from the serious public eye. The usual small coterie of “peace activists” had shown up and a few who were supporting Chelsea as a fellow transgender and there had been the usual speeches and pleas to sign the on-line petition to the White House to trigger a response from the President on the question of a pardon (see link above). (That lack of response by the greater LGBTQ community to Chelsea’s desperate plight all through the case had had Ralph and Bart shaking their heads in disgust as the usual reason given was that all energies had to expended on getting gay marriage recognized. The twice divorced Ralph and three times divorced mumbled to themselves over that one).

Ralph and Bart were in melancholy mood no question since they had long ago given up any illusion that the struggle against war and for some kind of social justice was going to be easy but the prospects ahead, what Ralph had called the coming “cold civil war” under the tutelage of one Donald Trump had them reeling as it related to Chelsea’s case. They bantered back and forth about how many actions they had participated in since they got the news of the case that a young whistle-blower was being held for telling the world about the cover-up of countless atrocities committed by American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan (via Wiki-leaks, not the mainstream media who would not touch making the information that Chelsea had gleaned for love or money).

There were the trips to Quantico down in hostile Virginia in order to get Chelsea out of the “hole,” get her out of Marine base solitary (and where they faced an incredible array of cops and military personnel all to “monitor” a few hundred supporters). The trips to the White House to proclaim their message. The several trips during the trial down at Fort Meade in Maryland where they had to laugh about being on a military base for the first time in decades (they had been barred many years back for demonstrations on a military base against the Reagan administrations war against Central America). The weekly vigils before the case went to trial and over the previous three years the fight to keep the case in the public eye.          


As they finished up their last shots of whiskey against the cold night both agreed though that come May they would be out commemorating Chelsea’s seventh year in the jug if Obama did not do the right thing beforehand. They both yelled as they went their separate ways (Ralph was staying with his daughter in Arlington) old Frank Jackman’s coined phrase-“we will not leave our sister behind.” No way.    

In Boston Sunday- "Killer Drones": Our government's assassination program

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REMINDER "Killer Drones": Our government's assassination program

When: Sunday, December 4, 2016, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Where: Elliott Church of Newton • Center Street and Church Street • Newton Corner
We will show excerpts from "Drone"and watch a video of Christopher Aaron, an ex-drone program analyst who will speak about his experiences working in Afghanistan and Iraq. Discussion with members of the UJP Anti-Drones Campaign will follow.
Christopher Aaron is a former counter-terorism officer for the CIA and Department of Defense drone program.  He deployed twice to Afghanistan and Iraq from 2006 - 2009, serving as an intelligence analyst and liaison between the military and the intelligence community in Washington, DC.  He resigned in 2009 due to ethical objections to the conduct of the wars.
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Thursday, December 01, 2016

I'm a veteran, this is why I'm going to Standing Rock -Stand In Solidarity With Standing Rock In Its Hour Of Need!

I'm a veteran, this is why I'm going to Standing Rock  -Stand In Solidarity With Standing Rock In Its Hour Of Need!  

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Dear Socialist Alternative Supporters,

Both the Army Corp of Engineers and the Governor of North Dakota have issued eviction notices to the encampment.  At the same time a 2000 strong contingent of military veterans has committed to travel in the next week to Standing Rock to act as human shields against the brutality of police and company security forces. We are passing on the following message from our co-activists in Movement for the 99% and encourage everyone to help:
Friends,

Below is a message from Aaron, one of the Movement for the 99% activists heading to Standing Rock today. He is a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and is heeding the call to join other veterans and medics to stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline. We are asking everyone to help Aaron by 
chipping in $25, $50 or what you can
 to help offset his $500 train ticket, supplies, and the threat issued by the Morton County Sheriff's Department of a $1000 fine for bringing supplies to the encampment. 

“My name is Aaron and I'm a Veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I'm going to Standing Rock answering a recent call for experienced medics.

Packing my bags for severe winter weather, anticipating possible food shortages, updating my emergency contacts, reviewing my will: this is an altogether too familiar routine for me, I'm preparing to deploy. Only this time, I'm on the side of the downtrodden, on the right side of history. I'm heading out to North Dakota, where I'll join thousands of other veterans as well as many more water protectors, representing hundreds of tribes and thousands of communities.

The next week will be decisive, and those bravely standing for the future of our planet could face police violence the likes of which we've never seen.  Local authorities have made clear that they are willing to provide unlimited forces for repression and violence, but it is up to folks like me to provide the medical care everyone needs in camp and during actions.

But I think that the fight won't be won out in the snowy Dakota winter. I think that it will be won when we working people come together in cities across the country in a movement to shut down banks and fossil fuel infrastructure. Many of us have local battles against Big Oil, and fighting those battles, while tying them to #NoDAPL, will put even greater pressure on the ruling elites to back off where the flame is hottest.

Aaron
Sgt. (USA Retired)"
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War Makes Strange Bedfellows- Literally-Brad Pitts’ Allied (2016)- A Film Review

War Makes Strange Bedfellows- Literally-Brad Pitts’ Allied (2016)- A Film Review 




DVD Review

By Sam Lowell

Allied, starring Brad Pitts, Marion Cotillard, 2016  

No question Casablanca out in Morocco is a tough place, a tough dollar on wartime romances. Way back when we had Rick (Humphrey Bogart for those hopefully three people who have not seen the film) of Rick’s Café in that town when it was under Vichy control turning down his Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) just so Victor Lazlo (Paul Henreid) could have company doing his Nazi resistance work. And Rick left with nothing but a beautiful friendship with a corrupt gendarme (Claude Rains). Talking about how the problems of three humans didn’t match up to the big historic struggle going on in the world then. Now we have this Brad Pitts vehicle, Allied, where the romance between a British Empire commando (hey he was Canadian) and a French Resistance (yes capital R when you put that big movement together that harassed the Germans maybe not until they cried “uncle” but enough to warrant an “R”) heats up while doing their respective jobs. But Casablanca is only the jump off connecting point between the two films since the current film is a lot less patriotically-driven and in the end there will be no beautiful friendships but only sorrow and grief.

Here is the way this saga played out.  Max (Brad Pitts) a British Empire intelligence officer is sent to Casablanca in 1942 to assassinate the German ambassador to Vichy-controlled French Morocco. His cover is as a French civilian mining businessman who is supposed to married to a French National and underground Resistance fighter, Marianne (Marion Cotillard). They pull the kill off convincing everybody that they were deeply in love and by getting into an exclusive reception for the German ambassador through Marianne’s good offices. Along the way they really did fall in love (consummated in a torrid love scene in a car out in a desert violet wind sandstorm, nice touch) and after the success of the caper Max asked Marianne to go back to London with him and get married.         

Fair enough. The annals of commando/spy work have had any number of such outcomes when two people are working closely together. Marianne eventually get clearance to entry England, they marry and have a child (delivered during one of the German bombings of London). Then the wheels begin to fall off. Marianne through interrogation of a German prisoner is exposed by British intelligence be a German double agent despite her previous heroic actions. Naturally Max refuses to believe that information about his wife. Just as naturally he is warned off the investigation by his superiors. And just as naturally he goes out to prove the authorities wrong. But as an intelligence officer he does have his moments of doubt. In the end he gathers enough information to find that Marianne was indeed a double agent. At that point though he is ready to give up everything for love (and seemingly she him). She saves him the trouble though and does the honorable thing and commits suicide leaving their daughter to be raised by Max.


Yeah, no question stay the hell away from Casablanca if you are looking for a little romance. Maybe try Paris, okay. Not the greatest epic wartime romance (it would take a lot to beat out Casablanca for one thing) but very good and very evocative of the period (including Benny Goodman as background for the dancing at a party in London).         

*****Four Ways To Support Freedom For Chelsea Manning- President Obama Pardon Chelsea Manning Now!

*****Four Ways To Support Freedom For Chelsea Manning- President Obama Pardon Chelsea Manning Now!


 Note that this image is PVT Manning's preferred photo.

Note that this image is PVT Manning’s preferred photo.

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The Struggle Continues …

Four  Ways To Support Heroic Wikileaks Whistle-Blower Chelsea  Manning

*Sign the public petition to President Obama – Sign online to urge President Obama commute Chelsea's sentence to time served-https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/commute-chelsea-mannings-sentence-time-served-1 Obama, Pardon Pvt. Manning,” and circulate to share with friends and family!

You  can also call (Comments”202-456-1111), write The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500, e-mail-(http://www.whitehouse.gov’contact/submitquestions-and comments) to demand that President Obama use his constitutional power under Article II, Section II to pardon Private Manning now.
*Start a stand -out, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, in your town square to publicize the pardon and clemency campaigns.  Contact the Private Manning SupportNetwork for help with materials and organizing tips https://www.chelseamanning.org/

*Contribute to the Private  Manning Defense Fund- now that the trial has finished funds are urgently needed for pardon campaign and for future military and civilian court appeals. The hard fact of the American legal system, military of civilian, is the more funds available the better the defense, especially in political prisoner cases like Private Manning’s. The government had unlimited financial and personnel resources to prosecute Private Manning at trial. And used them as it will on any future legal proceedings. So help out with whatever you can spare. For link go to https://www.chelseamanning.org/
*Write letters of solidarity to Private Manning while she is serving her sentence. She wishes to be addressed as Chelsea and have feminine pronouns used when referring to her. Private Manning’s mailing address: Chelsea E. Manning, 89289, 1300 N. Warehouse Road, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 66027-2304.

Private Manning cannot receive stamps or money in any form. Photos must be on copy paper. Along with “contraband,” “inflammatory material” is not allowed. Six page maximum.


Markin comments (Winter 2014):   

There is no question now that Chelsea Manning’s trial, if one can called what took place down in Fort Meade a trial in the summer of 2013 rather than a travesty, a year after her conviction on twenty plus counts and having received an outrageous thirty-five year sentence essentially for telling us the truth about American atrocities and nefarious actions in Iraq, Afghanistan and wherever else the American government can stick its nose that her case has dropped from view. Although she occasionally gets an Op/Ed opportunity, including in the New York Times, a newspaper which while recoiling at the severity of the sentence in the immediate reaction did not question the justice of the conviction, and has several legal moves going from action to get the necessary hormonal treatments reflecting her real sexual identity (which the Army has stonewalled on and which even the New York Times has called for implementing) to now preparing the first appeal of her conviction to another military tribunal the popular uproar against her imprisonment has become a hush. While the appeals process may produce some results, perhaps a reduction in sentence, the short way home for her is a presidential pardon right now. I urge everybody to Google Amnesty International and sign on to the online petition to put the pressure on President Barack Obama for clemency.                   
I attended some of the sessions of Chelsea Manning’s court-martial in the summer of 2013 and am often asked these days in speaking for her release about what she could expect from the various procedures going forward to try to “spring” her from the clutches of the American government, or as I say whenever I get the chance to “not leave our buddy behind” in the time-honored military parlance. I have usually answered depending on what stage her post-conviction case is in that her sentence was draconian by all standards for someone who did not, although they tried to pin this on her, “aid the enemy.” Certainly Judge Lind though she was being lenient with thirty-five years when the government wanted sixty (and originally much more before some of the counts were consolidated). The next step was to appeal, really now that I think about it, a pro forma appeal to the commanding general of the Washington, D.C. military district where the trial was held. There were plenty of grounds to reduce the sentence but General Buchanan backed up his trial judge in the winter of 2014. Leaving Chelsea supporters right now with only the prospect of a presidential pardon to fight for as the court appeals are put together which will take some time. This is how I put the matter at one meeting:

“No question since her trial, conviction, and draconian sentence of thirty-five years imposed by a vindictive American government heroic Wiki-leaks whistle-blower Chelsea Manning’s has fallen off the radar. The incessant news cycle which has a short life cycle covered her case sporadically, covered the verdict, covered the sentencing and with some snickers cover her announcement directly after the sentencing that she wanted to live as her true self, a woman. (A fact that her supporters were aware of prior to the announcement but agreed that the issue of her sexual identity should not get mixed up with her heroic actions during the pre-trial and trial periods.) Since then despite occasional public rallies and actions her case had tended, as most political prisoner cases do, to get caught up in the appeals process and that keeps it out of the limelight.”            

Over the past year or so Chelsea Manning has been honored and remembered by the Veterans For Peace, Smedley Butler Brigade in Boston in such events as the VFP-led Saint Patrick’s Day Peace Parade, the Memorial Day anti-war observance, the yearly Gay Pride Parade, the Rockport July 4th parade, the VFP-led Veterans Day Peace Parade, and on December 17th her birthday. We have marched with a banner calling for her freedom, distribute literature about her case and call on one and all to sign the pardon petitions. The banner has drawn applause and return shouts of “Free Chelsea.” The Smedley Butler Brigade continues to stand behind our sister. We will not leave her behind. We also urge everybody to sign the Amnesty International on-line petition calling on President Obama to use his constitutional authority to pardon Chelsea Manning
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/usa-one-year-after-her-conviction-chelsea-manning-must-be-released-2014-07-30  

Additional Markin comment on his reasons for supporting Chelsea Manning:
I got my start in working with anti-war GIs back in the early 1970s after my own military service was over. After my own service I had felt a compelling need to fight the monster from the outside after basically fruitless and difficult efforts inside once I got “religion” on the war issue first-hand. That work included helping create a couple of GI coffeehouses near Fort Devens in Massachusetts and down at Fort Dix in New Jersey in order for GIs to have a “friendly” space in which to think through what they wanted to do in relationship to the military.

Some wanted help to apply for the then tough to get discharge for conscientious objection. Tough because once inside the military, at least this was the way things went then, the military argued against the depth of the applying soldier’s convictions and tended to dismiss such applications out of hand. Only after a few civil court cases opened up the application process later when the courts ruled that the military was acting arbitrarily and capriciously in rejecting such applications out of hand did things open up a little in that channel. Others wanted to know their rights against what they were told by their officers and NCOs. But most, the great majority, many who had already served in hell-hole Vietnam, wanted a place, a non-military place, a non-GI club, where they could get away from the smell, taste, and macho talk of war.
Although there are still a few places where the remnants of coffeehouses exist like the classic Oleo Strut down at Fort Hood in Texas the wars of the past decade or so has produced no great GI resistance like against the Vietnam War when half the Army in America and Vietnam seemed to be in mutiny against their officers, against their ugly tasks of killing every “gook” who crossed their path for no known reason except hubris, and against the stifling of their rights as citizens. At one point no anti-war march was worthy of the name if it did not have a contingent of soldiers in uniform leading the thing. There are many reasons for this difference in attitude, mainly the kind of volunteer the military accepts but probably a greater factor is that back then was the dominance of the citizen-soldier, the draftee, in stirring things up, stirring things up inside as a reflection of what was going on out on the streets and on the campuses. I still firmly believe that in the final analysis you have to get to the “cannon fodder,” the grunts, the private soldier if you want to stop the incessant war machine. Since we are commemorating, if that is the right word the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I check out what happened, for example, on the Russian front when the desperate soldiers left the trenches during 1917 after they got fed up with the Czar, with the trenches, with the landlords, and the whole senseless mess.

Everyone who has the least bit of sympathy for the anti-war struggles of the past decade should admire what Chelsea Manning has done by her actions releasing that treasure trove of information about American atrocities in Iraq and elsewhere. She has certainly paid the price for her convictions with a draconian sentence. It is hard to judge how history will record any particular heroic action like hers but if the last real case with which her action can be compared with is a guide, Daniel Ellsberg and The Pentagon Papers, she should find an honored spot. Moreover Chelsea took her actions while in the military which has its own peculiar justice system. Her action, unlike back in Vietnam War times, when the Army was half in mutiny was one of precious few this time out. Now that I think about she does not have to worry about her honored place in history. It is already assured. But just to be on the safe side let’s fight like hell for her freedom. We will not leave our sister Chelsea behind.              

A View From The Left- The Cold Civil War In America Has Begun-Down With The Trump Government

A View From The Left- The Cold Civil War In America Has Begun-Down With The Trump Government   

From The Partisan Defense Committee-31st Holiday Appeal-December 2-New York City

From The Partisan Defense Committee-31st Holiday Appeal-December 2-New York City  


In Boston-Killer Drones: Our government's assassination program

Killer Drones: Our government's assassination program

When: Sunday, December 4, 2016, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Where: Elliott Church of Newton • Center Street and Church Street • Newton Corner
We will show excerpts from "Drone"and watch a video of Christopher Aaron, an ex-drone program analyst who will speak about his experiences working in Afghanistan and Iraq. Discussion with members of the UJP Anti-Drones Campaign will follow.
Christopher Aaron is a former counter-terorism officer for the CIA and Department of Defense drone program.  He deployed twice to Afghanistan and Iraq from 2006 - 2009, serving as an intelligence analyst and liaison between the military and the intelligence community in Washington, DC.  He resigned in 2009 due to ethical objections to the conduct of the wars.
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