Here is the first article in The Drone Papers series, produced by a team of Intercept reporters and researchers who spent months analyzing secret government documents. " The Interceptobtained a cache of secret slides that provides a window into the inner workings of the U.S. military’s kill/capture operations at a key time in the evolution of the drone wars — between 2011 and 2013. The documents, which also outline the internal views of special operations forces on the shortcomings and flaws of the drone program, were provided by a source within the intelligence community who worked on the types of operations and programs described in the slides. and because the U.S. government has engaged in aggressive prosecution of whistleblowers.