Nick Turse is the master of annoying the Pentagon with his pesky questions about their secret military deployments and how they're spending U.S. taxpayer dollars in places you've never heard of. He lives up to his reputation with a new Intercept piece, written with Alice Speri: "How the Pentagon uses a secretive program to wage proxy wars." This week, we discuss how their Freedom of Information requests resulted in a ton of new information about special operations missions across the Middle East and Africa, and how successive administrations and Congress have done nothing about it. In the first segment, Kelley and Dan talk about whether the Biden administration will declare Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman immune from a civil lawsuit alleging his role in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi — or will his new desire to make nice with the Kingdom come between Khashoggi's loved ones and final justice?
More from Nick Turse:
How the Pentagon uses a secretive program to wage proxy wars — The Intercept (w/Alice Speri), 7/1/22
Civilian Victim of U.S. Drone Strike Starts a Go Fund Me to Save his Legs — and His Life, The Intercept, 5/218/22
The military isn’t tracking US-trained officers in Africa — Responsible Statecraft. 3/30/22
Are we training future coup leaders and creating new terrorists in West Africa? — Responsible Statecraft, 1/31/22
US secret proxy wars across the globe and why you don't know about them, w/ Nick Turse