HomelandSecurityDrones

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2669   10 years ago
The United States domestic drone surveillance program has been sharply condemned by experts who say that Washington violates American civil liberties, Press TV reports. "This kind of policy for unlimited surveillance...I think this is a dangerous precedent," said Mounzer Sleiman, a US national security affairs analyst, adding that Americans "assume that this country is free and we have a constitution and we preserve the rights of every individual." His comments came as the US Federal Aviation Administration announced last week that it has issued some 1,428 permits for domestic drone operators since 2007 and that another 10,000 permits could be issued over the next five years./nThe US Department of Homeland Security also confirmed that it had received a massive response from potential drone-building vendors, and was moving toward more tests of the technology for "public safety applications". Experts criticized Washington for its aggressive pursuit of a domestic drone program, saying it violates privacy rights, while drawing on similarities with the foreign drone policy used in warzones in the Middle East. "We criticize al-Qaeda for being lawless but we're modeling the behavior of the very terrorists that we criticize. We need to model the behavior that we want all people to live," said Toby Blome, anti-drone activist and a member of Code Pink.
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