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National Bird - Borders Don't Matter Anymore - Clip

In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film National Bird, former U.S. military technical sergeant Lisa talks about working on the DGS (distributed ground system), which spans the globe, eating personal data and contributing to decisions that led to drone strikes from anywhere, anytime. "I thought I was going to be on the right side of history and today I don't believe I was," she says.

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