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Official Remarks on Drones

Updated Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:10pm AEDT Drones play an increasing and controversial role in modern warfare.

Drone journalism takes off

Drones used by Foreign Countries

Commercial Use of Drones

Exclusive: PowerPoint Shows Drone Industry’s Lobbying Plan To Expand Over Domestic, Law Enforcement Markets : Republic Report

By Lee Fang posted Feb 15th 2012 at 10:15AM

http://www.republicreport.org/2012/drone-powerpoint-lobby-plan/

Ethical Issues

FAA

Lawfare on Drones

<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-69020" title="Air Force stands up first unmanned aircraft systems wing" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2012/01/dronery.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="309" /> Remember when the military actually put human beings in the cockpits of its planes? They still do, but in far fewer numbers.

Almost One In Three U.S. Warplanes Is a Robot | Danger Room

9 February 2012 Last updated at 05:30 ET US drone attacks have killed dozens of militants but also civilians One of the most senior al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan, Badar Mansoor, has been killed in a US drone strike, local officials say.

Pakistan al-Qaeda chief 'killed' in US drone attack

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16960948

"One of the most senior al Qaeda fighters in Pakistan, Badar Mansoor, has been killed by a U.S. drone, according to local officials. Mansoor is suspected of orchestrating attacks in Pakistan and elsewhere that killed dozens of people. Pakistani officials say Mansoor was among four militants killed in the strike. On Thursday, 10 suspected militants were killed in a drone strike in Pakistan." by pattychanman Feb 9

The program was described by the department’s diplomatic security branch in a little-noticed section of its most recent annual report and outlined in broad terms in a two-page online prospectus for companies that might bid on a contract to manage the program.

Iraq Is Angered by U.S. Drones Patrolling Its Skies

Congress Welcomes The Drones

WASHINGTON (AP) — Heads up: Drones are going mainstream. Civilian cousins of the unmanned military aircraft that have tracked and killed terrorists in the Middle East and Asia are in demand by police departments , border patrols, power companies, news organizations and others wanting a bird's-eye view that's too impractical or dangerous for conventional planes or helicopters to get.

Pressure builds for civilian drone flights at home

http://news.yahoo.com/pressure-builds-civilian-drone-flights-home-150120049.html

By Joshua Brustein

Drones With an Eye on the Public Cleared to Fly

http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/01/uas_faa.html

Domestic Use of Drones is Well Underway

The use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) within the United States is certain to increase in the years to come, as a new Army policy has recently made clear. ( “Army Foresees Expanded Use of Drones in U.S.

Drones Will Be Admitted to Standard US Airspace By 2015

Drones Will Be Admitted to Standard US Airspace By 2015 The FAA's NextGen update is finally being funded. The skies are going to look very different pretty soon, and it's been a long time coming.

Doyle McManus: U.S. targeted killing program needs discussion

When it comes to national security, Michael V. Haydenis no shrinking violet.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-mcmanus-column-drones-and-the-law-20120205,0,876903.column

Missiles being loaded onto a military Reaper drone in Afghanistan. The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals, an investigation by the Bureau for the Sunday Times has revealed.

Obama terror drones: CIA tactics in Pakistan include targeting rescuers and funerals

Surveillance drone industry plans PR effort to counter negative image | UK news

An aerial surveillance drone. Photograph: John Giles/PA

Feinstein tweaks Obama administration for secrecy breaches

Feinstein is criticizing the administration.

"U.S. government officials have generally refused to discuss the CIA drone program publicly, even though it is well known in Pakistan. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has made a couple of comments that appeared to confirm the program, but were more ambiguous than Obama's statements Monday about U.S.-run drone operations "going after Al Qaeda suspects who are up in very tough terrain along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan." by pattychanman Feb 25

Courthouse News Service

""Although U.S. government officials, including the president and the secretary of defense, have made statements on the record confirming the existence of the targeted killing program, the government has not disclosed the process by with it adds names to the so-called 'kill lists;' the standards under which it determines which Americans may be put to death; or the evidentiary bases on which it concluded that those standards were satisfied in any particular case," the complaint states." by pattychanman Feb 25