"In a 2012 report that was based on nine months of data analysis and field interviews, a team of law students from New York University and Stanford concluded that the dominant narrative in the U.S. about the use of drones in Pakistanāāa surgically precise and effective tool that makes the United States safer by enabling ātargeted killingā of terrorists, with minimal downsides or collateral impactsāāis false. The researchers found that C.I.A.-operated drones were nowhere near as discriminating toward noncombatants as the agencyās leaders have claimed. Various estimates have put the civilian death toll in the hundreds. An analysis of media reports by the New America Foundation concluded that drones probably killed some two hundred and fifty to three hundred civilians in the decade leading up to 2014. Researchers working under Chris Woods at the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism conducted field interviews to supplement a separate analysis of media reporting. They estimated that American drones killed between four hundred and nine hundred and fifty civilians."
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