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Sen. Rand Paul blasts Obama over drone attacks on US citizens
Sen. Rand Paul says there must be a review process before a president can authorize drone strikes on U.S. citizens. “It’s very unseemly that a politician gets to decide the death of an American
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Is Your Town on the Map? FAA Releases New Drone List Of 81 New Applicants
Surveillance drones or unmanned aerial systems (UASs) raise significant issues for privacy and civil liberties. Drones are capable highly advanced surveillance, and drones already in use by law enforcement can carry various types of
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US media kept Saudi drone base secret for two years
It only came to light after a blackout on reporting agreed by the media and the Obama administration was broken by two US newspapers. The revelation that the US has been operating a secret drone
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Secret US assassination drone base in Saudi Arabia exposed
The existence of a previously secret US assassination drone base in Saudi Arabia has come to light amid President Barack Obama’s bid to install his counterterrorism adviser and architect of his covert targeted-killing policy,
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What Happens When Drones Return to America
A few months ago I borrowed a drone from a company called Parrot. Officially the drone is called an AR.Drone 2.0, but for simplicity's sake, we're just going to call it the Parrot. The
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UN Investigates US Drone Attacks
A UN investigation into the legality and casualties of drone strikes has been formally launched, with a leading human rights lawyer revealing the team that will carry out the inquiry.The announcement came as the
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US Spy Secrets Revealed! 1.8 gigapixel ARGUS-IS. World’s highest resolution video surviellience platform by DARPA
The ARGUS array is made up of several cameras and other types of imaging systems. The output of the imaging system is used to create extremely large, 1.8GP high-resolution mosaic images and video.
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Constant Surveillance of Entire Cities Now Possible with Latest Drone Tech
Apparently many of the civilian deaths by drones in Afghanistan are not attributed to the U.S. military being there on false pretenses, but rather to limitations in surveillance technology. The video below opens with
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The Unfortunately Long List of Children In Yemen and Pakistan Who Were Murdered By Drones
Whenever the mainstream media breaks news about a drone strike, they are always careful to say that it was “militants” who were killed, sometimes they even label the victims as members of “Al-Qaeda”. However, reality
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CIA drone strikes will get pass in counterterrorism ‘playbook,’ officials say
The Obama administration is nearing completion of a detailed counterterrorism manual that is designed to establish clear rules for targeted-killing operations but leaves open a major exemption for the CIA’s campaign of drone strikes
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Obama administration hiding info on targeted killings of Americans – senator
A US senator has accused the Obama administration and the Justice Department for not being “adequately forthcoming” with information on the targeting and potential killing of Americans suspected of terrorism. Ron Wyden, the Democratic senator
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White House wins fight to keep drone killings of Americans secret
A federal judge issued a 75-page ruling on Wednesday that declares that the US Justice Department does not have a legal obligation to explain the rationale behind killing Americans with targeted drone strikes. United States
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Obama administration needs to explain drone strikes
The Obama administration, having killed a 16-year-old American boy, refuses to explain why in court. The boy, Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi, was born in Denver and lived there until he was 7, when his family moved to
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Revealed: U.S. carried out 333 drone strikes in Afghanistan this year alone – more than the entire drone strikes in Pakistan over the past eight years COMBINED
The United States carried out more drone strikes in Afghanistan this year than it has done in all the years put together in Pakistan since it launched the covert air war there eight years
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U.S. Gov’t Asks Federal Judge to Dismiss Cases of Americans Killed by Drones
As Americans mourn the deaths of 20 children and 6 adults in the Newtown, CT tragedy - and the gun control debate has reached a fever pitch - autonomous killing systems are being
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US Drone Pilot asks ”Did We Just Kill A Kid?” — Commander Tells him it Was Just a Dog with 2 Legs
The New Mexico desert gets blistering hot, but inside the small windowless container where Brandon Bryant worked as a drone operator for the U.S. Air Force it stays a cool 63 degrees all year
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Obama Wipes Away Fake Tears
In a performance that would assuredly not win him an Oscar, Obama pretended to wipe away tears today during a news conference following the school massacre in Connecticut
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Former US president slams drone attacks
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has slammed American assassination drone strikes in other countries, saying that killing civilians in such attacks would in fact nurture terrorism. "I personally think we do more harm than
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New Documents Show Military Is Flying Drones Throughout US
Thousands of pages of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) documents released under the Freedom Of Information Act highlight that the military is extensively flying surveillance drones in non-restricted skies throughout the country. The records, released by
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