drones

Will Obama donate money from his book deals/ $400K Wall Street speeches to wounded veterans of Afghan war & other wars he escalated/started, drone attacks innocent victims? Should he? President Bush is giving money from his book deal to US military veterans wounded in Iraq/Afghan wars...

Is it time for another Rand Paul filibuster on drones? President Donald Trump has given the Central Intelligence Agency new authority to conduct drone attacks against suspected militants, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing U.S. officials...

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/323808-trump-gives-cia-power-to-launch-drone-strikes-report

h/t Laurence Vance @ LRC: https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/pentagon-to-increase-drone-flights-by-50-percent/ Pentagon plans to increase drone flights by 50 percent by 2019 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/17/pentagon-plans-to-increase-drone-flights-by-50-percent-by-201/ The Wall...

h/t Daniel McAdams @ LRC: https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/afghan-drone-strike-expect-more-blowback/ Afghan Drone Strike: Expect More Blowback US drones killed 34 at an Afghan funeral over the weekend, but US officials assured us they were all terrorists. Locals disagreed. CIA director...

http://benswann.com/ig-report-atf-scraps-drone-program-after-wasting-600k-on-broken-drones/ According to a Department of Justice inspector general report on the use of drones by federal law enforcement agencies, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives squandered $600,000 on six...

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/white-house-drone/

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/10/u-s-media-13-year-old-yemeni-boy-killed-u-s-drone/ By Glenn Greenwald...

During the first-ever Snapchat interview with a member of the United States Senate, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told CNN that if a drone flyover like the one that occurred at the White House Monday were to happen at his home, he’d shoot it down. "Drones should only be used according to the...

‘We didn’t even really know who we were firing at’ – former US drone operator ‘We didn’t even really know who we were firing at’ – former US drone operator

Federal Prison Sentence Begins for Anti-Drone Activist

http://globalnews.ca/news/1787586/drone-strapped-with-meth-crash-lands-in-tijuana-parking-lot/

‘Drone pilot crisis’: Pentagon promises pay rise to ‘stressed’ operators Continued - ‘Drone pilot crisis’: Pentagon promises pay rise to ‘stressed’ operators

Feds find border drones don’t actually make border more secure http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/feds-find-border-drones-dont-actually-make-border-more-secure/ The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) own watchdog says that drones deployed at the United States-Mexico border do not...

The government has the power to hold drone operators accountable when they operate the remote-control aircraft recklessly, a federal safety board ruled Tuesday in a setback to small drone operators chafing under Federal Aviation Administration restrictions. The FAA had fined Raphael Pirker, an...

http://rt.com/usa/191660-california-brown-drone-veto/ As usual this isn't getting any major airtime. Not even Alex Jones is talking about this. This is only setting a disgusting precedent.

The Free State Project: A Libertarian Testing Ground For Bitcoin, 3D Printers, and Drones 6/12/2014 @ 8:30AM Kashmir Hill Forbes Staff http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/12/the-free-state-project-a-libertarian-testing-ground-for-bitcoin-3d-printers-and-drones/ This article was just...

U.S. passenger jet nearly collided with drone in March: FAA By Alwyn Scott NEW YORK (Reuters) - An American Airlines Group Inc aircraft almost collided with a drone above Florida earlier this year, a near-accident that highlights the growing risk from rising use of unmanned aircraft, the U.S...