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Originally Posted by JohnR
Armed drones are the military / CIA. Both are prevented by Federal law from conduction operations in the United States.
Police departments or the FBI are not using drones that will be armed. Maybe they could fly one into a citizen but that is a lot harder than it sounds.
It is precisely germane to the discussion.
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Multiple issues here...
1) The Feds already have the ability to use deadly force as a means of last resort and this is precisely the scenario Holder referenced.
2) That the Feds don't have armed drones today doesn't mean they won't have them soon. Especially considering the explosion of drone activity we're going to encounter in a few years the FBI will have to have additional capabilities to counter potential drone based security threats.
With the increasing trend towards outside contracting drone support it would be easy to transfer liability to another organization...or...the FBI may already have them actually and we just don't know about it.
That the Administration's response put so many qualifications on the use of domestic drones makes the filibuster all the more absurd. We should start making up all sorts of hypothetical situations and demand concrete answers...
This is a long way from Obama ordering a Hellfire into the corner Starbucks to eliminate Karl Rove.
-spence