July 2015 – The Intell Blog

July 30, 2015 Crofton Black

Identifying the companies involved in Pentagon drone operations: The contracts, how we got the data

The Bureau’s investigation of private sector involvement in the Pentagon’s drones targeting operations took six months of painstaking research aided by

July 30, 2015 Abigail Fielding Smith

The private firms tracking terror targets at heart of US drone wars

The overstretched US military has hired hundreds of private sector contractors in the heart of its drone operations to analyse

July 30, 2015 Abigail Fielding Smith

How private sector is cashing in on Pentagon’s ‘insatiable demand’ for drone war intelligence

Some months ago, an imagery analyst was sitting in his curtained cubicle at Hurlburt Field airbase in Florida watching footage

July 2, 2015 Abigail Fielding Smith

Amid the fog of war, do we actually know who belongs to al Qaeda in Yemen now?

Distinguishing between militants in Yemen and those merely associated with them is getting harder as the country’s war drags on, correspondent Iona Craig told

July 1, 2015 Jack Serle

Drone war report, January – June 2015: controversial ‘signature strikes’ hit Yemen and Pakistan

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