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Adam Serwer over at Mother Jones has a piece up making fun of the GOP for proposing legislation the sponsors say would limit the president’s authority to conduct drone strikes on US soil. He writes: Not wanting to take Attor ...

Blog entry - sosadmin - 03/08/2013 - 16:07 - 0 attachments

Please note that by playing this clip YouTube and Google will place a long term cookie on your computer. The man in the video above built a drone with a weapon attached. He says he has fired the paintball drone weapon at real human ...

Blog entry - sosadmin - 12/12/2012 - 17:15 - 0 attachments

... human beings out of the mix entirely, and make killer drones fully autonomous . But we are not there yet, although that time ...

Blog entry - sosadmin - 03/05/2013 - 15:44 - 0 attachments

... The Administration’s claim that it sends in the drones as a “last result” when capture is impossible or a terrorist ...

Blog entry - sosadmin - 12/04/2012 - 17:05 - 0 attachments

... Research Service published a report , "Drones in Domestic Surveillance Operations: Fourth Amendment Implications and ... License plate reading: The report mentions that drones can be used to read license plates, and cites a 2004 (!) Customs & ...

Blog entry - sosadmin - 09/11/2012 - 13:31 - 0 attachments

Please consider the following. From the New York Times , January 2, 2013: A federal judge in Manhattan refused on Wednesday to require the Justice Department to disclose a memorandum providing the legal justification for the t ...

Blog entry - sosadmin - 03/11/2013 - 16:36 - 0 attachments

... House Judiciary Committee hearing entitled "Drones and the War on Terror: When Can the U.S. Target Alleged American ...

Blog entry - sosadmin - 03/01/2013 - 16:24 - 0 attachments

... to witness an explosion in domestic law enforcement use of drones to surveil the US population. An ACLU report released last week ... policy questions that need to be addressed before police drones invade our airspace. Essentially, the authors recommend that ...

Blog entry - sosadmin - 04/10/2012 - 14:42 - 0 attachments

No sooner did we learn that the Alameda County (California) sheriff was seeking funds to purchase a surveillance drone , than we found out from the October 21 Boston Globe that a Massachusetts SWAT team, MetroLEC, had applied for clear ...

Blog entry - sosadmin - 10/22/2012 - 17:15 - 0 attachments

... a demonstration? And on the menu of favorite toys? Drones! Miami-Dade, Seattle and Montgomery County, Texas have already ...

Blog entry - sosadmin - 03/08/2013 - 17:30 - 0 attachments