Lawfare Daily: A New Database of Possible U.S. War Crimes with Madeleine Baran and Parker Yesko
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🗓️ 15 November 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Madeleine Baran and Parker Yesko, investigative reporters with the New Yorker’s In the Dark podcast, join Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to discuss In the Dark: Season 3, which tells the story of a small group of Marines who killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, on Nov. 19, 2005.
They also discussed “The War Crimes That the Military Buried,” a new database of possible American war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan, which Baran and Yesko compiled over the course of their four-year investigation.
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| 1:45.1 | It's an all-military jury. |
| 1:49.8 | The prosecution is making decisions that you could never conceive of in a civilian context, striking the names, the prosecution, striking the names of the people who are killed, |
| 1:55.9 | so that the jury never hears the names of the people whose deaths are the reason why we're in the courtroom. |
| 2:01.4 | It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Tyler McBrion, managing editor of lawfare, with Madeline Barron and Parker Yesco, |
| 2:08.4 | investigative reporters for the New Yorkers podcast in the dark. |
| 2:12.2 | These are serious crimes, right? These are murders. These are assaults. A lot of them are charges |
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