Like the Edward Snowden leaks, the Drone Papers provide a dramatic look at a once-secretive government program. Unlike the Snowden leaks, this program doesn’t directly impact Americans in the way the NSA’s tactics do. And that could make all the difference. In NY Mag, Benjamin Wallace-Wells on the drama of the Drone Papers: “One question — maybe the most pressing question — is how the public feels about that brutal ratio of one targeted death to five or six unintended. The evidence so far is that the public is more or less okay with it.”

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