(CNN) -- On Thursday, President Barack Obama is scheduled to deliver a major speech in Washington about his administration's counterterrorism policies, focusing on the rationale and legal framework for the controversial CIA drone program and his plans to wind down the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. So we thought it might be useful to examine some common myths about the drone program and the prison population at Guantanamo. 1. Drone strikes largely target the leaders of terrorist groups that threaten the United States. In fact, of the thousands who have been killed in CIA drone strikes in Pakistan, only 37 were leaders of al Qaeda or affiliated organizations, according to a tally by the New America Foundation. And even if we add to that list the leaders of the Taliban who have been killed in drone strikes, only 2% of the victims of the CIA strikes in Pakistan have been militant leaders.
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President Obama to speak Thursday on drone program, Guantanamo
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Peter Bergen says there are many misconceptions about both issues
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He says idea that drones target leaders of anti-U.S. terrorist groups is mostly not true
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Bergen: It's a myth that all those at Guantanamo are too dangerous to release
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