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Blackbird
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Re: Mini Drones: Army Deploys Tiny Helicopters

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Drone strikes on US citizens justified in leaked DOJ memo
»www.theverge.com/2013/2/ ··· mericans

It raises a question: if Syria used a Syrian drone to attack and kill a Syrian rebel (and a Syrian citizen) on American soil while visiting a university here, what would be America's response? The sovereignty and Constitutional issues and conflicts raised by the drone policy revealed in this document are so profound that it's staggering to contemplate. To make pretense that it unilaterally sets some kind of "legal" rationale makes a travesty of every concept that the word "legal" implies. There is zero judicial involvement, either in the US or the nation in which the strike occurs. As the use (and lethality) of drones explodes around the world and as they become ever-smaller, these kinds of issues are the very ones that will come back to haunt every single one of us.

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There were some long discussions here on drone attacks and the ethics therefore, this news item highlights the extent of how the US is deploying drones to kill.
»www.guardian.co.uk/world ··· ne-yemen

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said by siljaline:

There were some long discussions here on drone attacks and the ethics therefore, this news item highlights the extent of how the US is deploying drones to kill.
»www.guardian.co.uk/world ··· ne-yemen

The article also highlights yet another one of those curious timing "coincidences" that seem to pop up from time to time:
quote:
... Disclosure of the Saudi co-operation comes the day before the architect of the drone programme, John Brennan, appears before the US Senate for a confirmation hearing to become the CIA director. ...
Another Guardian article elaborates about the disclosure... Washington Post was forced into finally revealing drone base secret:
quote:
...For more than a year, the paper refrained from disclosing the location of a secret US military base in Saudi Arabia from which CIA drones were launched. It did so at the request of the Obama administration, which argued that exposing the facility would undermine operations against al-Qaida in Yemen and might potentially damage counter-terrorism collaboration with Saudi Arabia.

But the Post learned on Tuesday night that another news outlet was planning to reveal the location of the base, effectively ending an informal arrangement among several news organisations that had been aware of the location. So the paper decided it was no longer feasible to keep the secret and published the information. Its story was followed up by Fox News here. ...
It leads one to wonder if there are some in CIA who aren't exactly thrilled at the prospect of his directorship.