19.01.17
Drone Warfare
Obama developed a defining policy architecture which his successor Donald Trump now inherits: the ability to kill suspected terrorists anywhere without US personnel having to leave their bases.
17.01.17
The use of drones aligned with Obama’s ambition to keep up the war against al Qaeda while extricating the US military from intractable ground wars, but the programme has drawn much criticism.
04.01.17
The US is pursuing a conventional aerial campaign against the Taliban with virtually no troops on the ground to provide reliable intelligence to guide it.
03.01.17
Read about our impact over the last 12 months - from sparking greater White House transparency on civilians killed by drones to revealing the true figures on unaccompanied child migrants.
01.01.17
The Bureau’s complete data sets on drone strikes in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia.
15.12.16
Global Superbugs
Dr Nina Khaira, a 39-year-old dentist from Cornwall got sepsis from an antibiotic-resistant bacteria while giving birth to her daughter Vega.
14.12.16
Binary Options
Binary options trading is sold as an investment opportunity but in reality it’s a very risky gamble or a straight-up scam. Police say it’s become the biggest fraud in the UK.
11.12.16
Superbugs are now killing more patients than breast cancer and at least twice as many people as the government estimate, experts have warned.
01.12.16
The Ministry of Defence announced plans to buy a new fleet of Predator drones from the US last April, stating the total cost would be £415m. Now the US says the estimated cost is £802m.
27.11.16
The Housing Crisis
A Bureau analysis has found Britain’s major housebuilding firms are making multi-billion pound profits at the same time they argue they cannot meet affordable housing targets.
11.11.16
Senior al Qaeda leader Faruq al Qatani was killed in a “precision strike” on October 23 in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, the Pentagon has confirmed.
04.11.16
The deaths amount to the biggest confirmed loss of civilian life in a single American strike in Afghanistan since the attack on the Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Kunduz last October.
02.11.16
The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau’s head of crime said police receive an average of two reports of binary trading fraud a day, with the average investor losing £16,000.
28.10.16
In an unprecedented moment of transparency during a 14 year covert war, US officials have met the family of an accidental drone strike victim to explain what happened and apologise.
18.10.16
There are no checks or regulations in place to stop the NHS buying drugs from factories in India which are helping to create superbugs.
11.10.16
Somali officials have claimed that the US killed 22 local soldiers and civilians in a drone strike that hit the north-central city of Galkayo late last month.
10.10.16
CIA Torture
Secret documents obtained by the Bureau confirm the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) set up and ran a “black site” for detention of al Qaeda suspects, say lawyers.
07.10.16
Norwegian pigs became infected with a superbug common in the Danish herd – despite having a ban on live imports – through farm workers who had worked abroad, a study has found.
06.10.16
Privatised War
Between 2009 and the end of 2015, total spending by the Department of Defense on goods and services from the private sector at large was more than $2.3 trillion.
03.10.16
The Bureau’s investigation has established there is no mandatory screening for live pigs being imported into Britain from Denmark, where MRSA is rife throughout the country’s herd.
