Journalist Glenn Greenwald, in a scorching series of Tweets, goes after the Biden administration for the droning to death of an Afghani family of 10. When the drone attack occurred, the media reported that Biden heroically stopped an “imminent threat” and “ISIS facilitator”, well in reality an innocent family was droned to death and the alleged terrorist, was not setting up an explosive device but filling up a water bottle. Greenwald puls no punches in his series of Tweets and raises many questions.
Greenwald, who is a liberal, points out the media was quick to boast about the drone strike, and we are seeing little follow-up after the truth has come out. He draws the conclusion, that the drone strike was ordered in order to fix the media cycle, which at the moment was reflecting Biden in a negative light. A week later, the Biden administration shifted the argument away from Afghanistan and towards vaccines and strict vaccine mandates.
The Biden administration lied about who it killed with its drone strike. They had no idea who they hit. The media mindlessly repeated the false claim that they killed “terrorists” when, in fact, they just killed innocent people.
A perfect summation of the US Endless Wars: https://t.co/1qNbQZWrYQ
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 10, 2021
Look how this NYT reporter heralded the Biden Admin’s drone attack — which wen now know killed no terrorists but wiped out a whole family — as a pinpoint strike showing what “remarkable” intel the US has in Afghanistan.
Do you see how they spread Pentagon/CIA propaganda? pic.twitter.com/ZhqveA60F5
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 10, 2021
An entire family in Afghanistan was extinguished to prevent Joe Biden from having to endure a news cycle accusing him of weakness in the face of the attack at Kabul Airport, accompanied by lies from his Pentagon/CIA and his media about who was killed.https://t.co/1qNbQZWrYQ
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 10, 2021
Beyond the fact that the Pentagon and CIA constantly lie about how their drones have killed terrorists but no civilians — they’ve been doing it over and over — there were so many reasons to be highly skeptical of the claim from the start. Remember this?https://t.co/iOlQLK6F4X
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 10, 2021
