“Studies of our drone strikes have suggested that maybe eight out of 10 times we are hitting the wrong target, we have killed thousands of civilians.”
What Washington Post found
Murphy is wrong to claim that “studies” show that 8 out of 10 times U.S. drones have hit the wrong target. He’s talking about the supposed track record during a five-month period in a region of Afghanistan 10 years ago.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Chris Murphy (Senator (D-Conn.)) made this claim around 14 September 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 September 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
Chris Murphy has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- transcripts.cnn.comhttps://transcripts.cnn.com/show/cg/date/2021-09-14/segment/02
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