Experts on the conduct and consequences of U.S. drone strikes delivered harrowing testimony Wednesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on two decades of aerial bombardment during the so-called War on Terror. 

“Our nation is at a turning point,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said upon opening the hearing. “In the months after 9/11 we strayed from our values, engaging in torture and indefinite detention at Guantánamo, which continues.”

“We also began conducting lethal strikes in unprecedented ways,” he continued, later acknowledging the tens of thousands of men, women, and children killed U.S. airstrikes in at least half a dozen nations over the past 20-plus years.

Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the committee, was dismissive of the proceeding, instead expressing concern for “the growing spike in violent crime, including murders and attacks on police” in the United States.

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