Earlier this year, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) publicly revealed for the first time in a hearing that it has been using drones to conduct surveillance operations inside the country, a striking admission, given that domestic drone is a subject of intense debate and there's still not a clear set of rules governing the practice. Now, under prodding from Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), the FBI has finally offered a few more details about it's use of drones, namely, in how many cases it's deployed them and that it's never sought a search warrant for doing so. "Since late 2006, the FBI has conducted surveillance using UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] in eight criminal cases and two national security cases," wrote Stephen D. Kelly,...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/26/4559870/fbi-drone-surveillance-in-the-us-10-cases-rand-paul
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