<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>Lincoln Chafee is running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016. He served one four-year term as Rhode Island's governor, beginning on Jan. 4, 2011. He was the first Independent to be<wm> the Democratic nominee.

Chafee gained popularity after the Benghazi operation in 2011 as the US Senate was running down, and his views align with the antiwar faction. His views were influenced by Edward Snowden's revelations about NSA surveillance and his famous 'black-ops-terrorist' statement, in which he accused the US military and government of war crimes committed against the Afghan and Iraqi insurgents during the Afghan war.
As he stood before Congress to testify before the committee about his views of the US</wm> role in all wars, he revealed the idea that US actions against the Afghan and Iraqi insurgents had no