I know that drones which operate and killed people in Yemen are based on a US military base a few miles west across the Red Sea in Djibouti (in the Horn of Africa) just south of the Capitol city. Scahill's previous book focused on US neocolonialism and terror against Yemen.
It's clearly a case of rich folks targeting and murdering poor folks. If someone were to light up that base, the media would make another September 11 type event out of it, but that same media downplay the routine murders committed by this base and similar ones in Afghanistan all the time.
So the American press is not in any way a free press. It's primarily a controlled press that defends fascism. It's models are William Randolf Hearst and Joseph Goebbels (who were friends in real life).
I consider it particularly tragic when a fascist successfully passed themselves off as a harmless liberal. The media is culpable.