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Drones Are Used For Domestic Surveillance, FBI Director Admits

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Not sure if this one fits with the "fairness doctrine" or the "inconvenience" paradigm (where the government is here to protect you in exchange for ceding all those pesky constitutional amendments), but moments ago yet another "conspiracy theory" become fact when the FBI director Robert Mueller admitted to the domestic use of drones for surveillance purposes.

From RT:

The FBI uses drones for domestic surveillance purposes, the head of the agency told Congress early Wednesday.

 

Robert Mueller, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, confirmed to lawmakers that the FBI owns several unmanned aerial vehicles, but has not adopted any strict policies or guidelines yet to govern the use of the controversial aircraft.

 

“Does the FBI use drones for surveillance on US soil?” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) asked Mr. Mueller during an oversight hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

 

“Yes,” Mueller responded bluntly, adding that the FBI’s operation of drones is “very seldom.”

Well as long as it's very seldom... The good thing about the rabbit hole is, it never really ends.

 

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Thu, 06/20/2013 - 01:53 | 3674315 PT
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Gee MeelionDollerBogus, your keen intellect and insightful arguments have me convinced.  I now renounce my religion and I am a converted atheist!

Oh yeah, and stinging locusts are nothing like machine gun drones.  Completely different!
Oh yeah, and I'm not really going to have sex with your daughter.  It's just that sometimes it is very important that when we meet, we take our clothes off together...

My apologies to everyone for creating a religious argument on a finance thread.  I realize it gets tedious for all of us.
But to those ZHers who occasionally provide evidence that makes me "confront my beliefs", thankyou.  Don't give up.  I like to learn.

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 12:35 | 3671827 mogul rider
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I blasted a mosquito with RAID yesterday that never even flinched.

 

you don't think?.................

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 12:36 | 3671830 mogul rider
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They are coming for ya....

 

run

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 12:39 | 3671837 mogul rider
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They fired the Men's warehouse guy today cause he was moonlighting as the "world's most interesting man".

 

 

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 12:50 | 3671885 gnomon
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Any drone hovering around my home and garden is fair game for a shotgun blast.  If it was government issue, too bad.  How was I to know?

Bernanke can just print up a few more benniebucks to cover the attrition.  

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 15:13 | 3672639 Trampy
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if a drone is flying over your farm or ranch, it's no problem, but if you're in urban area, there's the illegal discharge of firearm, which out west is just a misdemenaor but don't try it in Chicago because you'll be in the pen.

destruction of government property conviction requires proving knowleedge and willfullness, which they can get from your post right here unless you cover yr tracks and don't keep any evidence on yr puter.  it's a safe bet that you don't because over 99% have no clue howw to be private and even if it was laid out for them they'd be too lazy to do it.

 

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 12:57 | 3671911 kchrisc
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I wonder how they will use these in their next manufactured "terrorist" case?!

"Halli Habib, a part-time pizza delivery guy and 6th grade dropout, was supplied with a mulch-million dollar drone, 8-months flight training and a detailed plan to attack the UN or the pizza place next door, we're not sure, and we "stopped" him right before he hit his target. Aren't we swell?!"

The Federal bureau of Invention--manufacturing crime everywhere.

I am Richard Jewell and I approved of this message.

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 13:14 | 3671922 Carnegie_IB
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She's got Bettie Davis Eyes

http://youtu.be/rB1JdXFktsQ

 

Gwyneth Paltrow - Bette Davis Eyes(W/ Lyrics!!)

http://youtu.be/uPcxZSLzU0Y 

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 13:01 | 3671932 Troy Ounce
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Back off 99%!!

Who you think you are?

 

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 13:10 | 3671971 Joebloinvestor
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Hey ANONYMOUS, make yourselves useful and hack&crash a few drones. 

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 13:11 | 3671973 williambanzai7
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I'm looking through you...

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 13:38 | 3672096 Cathartes Aura
Wed, 06/19/2013 - 13:16 | 3671993 ThisIsBob
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We Luddites will tell you that the time and place to have started protesting all of this nonsense  was December 1903 at Kill Devil Hills.

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 14:15 | 3672277 Uncle Remus
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No shit...

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 14:19 | 3672297 CrashingDollars
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Just open up the FEMA camps already

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 14:32 | 3672376 kchrisc
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Will there be a pool or a lake?! And a TV for DWTS?!

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 14:42 | 3672423 ThisIsBob
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... and soma to keep everybody chillin'...

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 15:04 | 3672575 IndyPat
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No.
Showering and fireside gatherings will be mandatory, however.

By the way, does your dentist still use gold fillings, by any chance?

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 15:12 | 3672629 22winmag
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Why not? I can think of millions of highly patriotic, largely unemployed, heavily armed Americans that need a place to go target shooting.

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 20:44 | 3673735 Winston Smith 2009
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Not about drones, but a very interesting revelation.  More lies uncovered, perhaps?:

FORMER INVESTIGATORS OF TWA FLIGHT 800 EXPLOSION WILL BREAK SILENCE—CALL OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION RESULTS FALSE

http://press.epixhd.com/press-releases/former-investigators-of-twa-flight-800-explosion-will-break-silence-call-official-investigation-results-false/

Also:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/twa-flight-800-crash-investigation-ntsb-141624708.html

"Jim Speer, an accident investigator at the time of the crash for the Airline Pilots Association, who sifted through the recovered wreckage in a hangar, said he discovered holes consistent with those that would be formed by a high-energy blast in the right wing. He requested it be tested for explosives. When the test came back positive, he said, he was "physically removed" from a room by two CIA agents."

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