"Journalistic Ethos" Alive As @LauraPoitras, @GGreenwald & @JeremyScahill Launch @The_Intercept

Source: PolicyMic "A List of Children Killed by Drone Strikes in Pakistan and Yemen"

Debuting with a blockbuster piece of investigative reporting that goes a long way toward explaining why all those thousands of innocent civilians have died in U.S. drone strikes these many years, The//Intercept reveals that phone metadata guides the bombings. (Just not very accurately.)

"The NSA's secret role in the U.S. assassination program" has been published by a new media entity set up to defend and promote "journalistic ethos" according to founders Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill.