Jeremy Scahill

I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that…

— Jeremy Scahill

“operations] that previously only Tier One Special Mission Units would be doing.”

— Jeremy Scahill

I have chosen to cast my lot with independent media outlets because I believe that only through independent reporting where you are…

— Jeremy Scahill

“The British version of 'Shit My Dad Says' is really entertaining.”

— Jeremy Scahill

I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press.

— Jeremy Scahill

The first week I was in Iraq, I said, "This is what I want to do. I want to be a reporter…

— Jeremy Scahill

Because I didn't see war in Iraq through the partisan lens that seems to dominate a lot of the perspective today with…

— Jeremy Scahill

“Remember that there was great controversy that George Bush asserted the power simply to detain American citizens without due process or simply…

— Jeremy Scahill

Now, here we are, and we have Obama in office, and he has drawn down forces in Iraq - which is a…

— Jeremy Scahill

I believe that we [Americans] are making more new enemies than we are killing terrorists at this point, and I think it's…

— Jeremy Scahill

You can do as much diligence as possible before you go somewhere to try to protect yourself and the people around you.

— Jeremy Scahill

My fear, as an American, is that our own actions are going to contribute to an inspiration for terrorists to want to…

— Jeremy Scahill

If you're a human being, you'd have to be terrified. The impunity ... That these guys can sit on a TV show…

— Jeremy Scahill

If I were to read about me purely on Twitter, I wouldn’t know what to make of me.

— Jeremy Scahill

I think we [Americans] are going to look back and realize that the civil liberties that we've given up in the name…

— Jeremy Scahill

I also think that we [Americans] are operating out of fear in our country. It's not that terrorism is not a threat,…

— Jeremy Scahill

My philosophy about journalism is simple - that we have a job to hold those in power accountable, to give voice to…

— Jeremy Scahill

“When we went after the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, there was a certain understanding that we had the ability and the…

— Jeremy Scahill

Everywhere you go, people have recorded or captured events in real time on their mobile phones. It becomes one of the first…

— Jeremy Scahill

For much of my life as a journalist, I've viewed myself as being embedded with civilians and with those people who live…

— Jeremy Scahill

“The Looming Tower.”

— Jeremy Scahill

If we're going to kill our own people without even charging them with a crime, well, then we should just say we…

— Jeremy Scahill

What I believe in is being transparent and truthful and always trying to get the facts right. People will make their own…

— Jeremy Scahill

I don't pretend to be objective. There is no such thing as being an objective journalist.

— Jeremy Scahill