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On top of this, there was hundreds of additional operations

on our kind of self-built data set that we'd put together

and in those hundreds of additional operations, we just couldn't determine

if those killed were civilians or militants.

And I think that's really an important thing to note too

and we wanted to be really transparent about that because that's also, you know, hundreds of other people

in those that there's still questions around, you know, who were these people

that no one was counting and that just kind of seemed to slip away

into history without, you know, without us really understanding

who they were and what happened to them.

I'm Tyler McBride, managing editor of LawFair.

And this is the LawFair podcast, January 24th, 2023.

In 2019, investigative journalist and photographer Lindsey Billing

went to Afghanistan to investigate a very personal story, her own past.

In the process, she discovered what she came to call

a classified war, one with lines of accountability so obscured

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