Fears Confirmed: Domestic Drones 'Fly Regularly' in US Airspace

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/05-9



The EFF released a new map that tracks the location of drone flights across the US.


Fears Confirmed: Domestic Drones 'Fly Regularly' in US Airspace
- Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Published on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 by Common Dreams

Digital watchdog the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) published several thousand pages of new drone license records on Wednesday confirming innumerable theorists' fears: that drones "regularly fly" in "national airspace all around the country."

The records, which were obtained by way of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), come from state and local law enforcement agencies, universities and—for the first time—three branches of the U.S. military: the Air Force, Marine Corps, and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the group writes on their Deeplinks blog.

According to the records, the Air Force has been testing out a variety of drones, from the smaller, hand-launched Raven, Puma and Wasp drones to the larger Predator and Reaper models largely responsible for countless civilian and foreign military deaths.

Breaking down the shocking capabilities of the various machines, Deeplinks writes that the technologies "takes surveillance to a whole new level." They continue:

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2. I would have guessed they were looking for weed

but the map doesn't really look like that. None over Ky. and Tn. for example. Then I realized they were mostly over cities - Miami, Atlanta, and so on. Then I realized that it is a probably being close to military bases. They are probably training and testing them.