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02 March 2013

Drones and The Holocaust and things...

From Steve...

New Documents Reveal U.S. Marshals’ Drones Experiment, Underscoring Need for Government Transparency

 

By Naomi Gilens, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 8:12am
The use of surveillance drones is growing rapidly in the United States, but we know little about how the federal government employs this new technology. Now, new information obtained by the ACLU shows for the first time that the U.S. Marshals Service has experimented with using drones for domestic surveillance.
We learned this through documents we released today, received in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. The documents are available here. (We also released a short log of drone accidents from the Federal Aviation Administration as well as accident reports and other documents from the U.S. Air Force.) This revelation comes a week after a bipartisan bill to protect Americans’ privacy from domestic drones was introduced in the House.
Although the Marshals Service told us it found 30 pages about its drones program in response to our FOIA request, it turned over only two of those pages—and even they were heavily redacted.
Here’s what we know from the two short paragraphs of text we were able to see. Under a header entitled “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Man-Portable (UAV) Program,” an agency document overview begins:
"USMS Technical Operations Group's UAV Program provides a highly portable, rapidly deployable overhead collection device that will provide a multi-role surveillance platform to assist in [redacted] detection of targets."

Read the rest here... 

Thanks, Steve.

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Holocaust Researchers Catalog 42,500 Nazi Ghettos, Camps; Numbers Are 'Unbelievable'

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Waiting for 'amaddinnerjacket' to claim that the newly revealed statistics* are 'grossly over stated' in: 5-4-3.............


*couldn't possibly be true since the 'Holocaust' never happened.

Blue said...

Mahmoud is a bit crazy, don't ya think? :)

Anonymous said...

Yeh and an army that could'nt get ammo to the front managed to kill 20 MILLION civilans? In 1945 the US war crimes trials claimed that the NAZIs killed 6 million TOATAl. That number has been "revised" upward about every twenty years. Yes what happend WAS a horror, but to keep clameing new "victems" every few years is the fastest possable way to destroy the memory of the event. If the "powers that be" destroy the memory of the nazi genocide, they can start over with a whole new set of "enemies"

Blue said...

There is always a "new set of enemies".

Wraith said...

It couldn't happen here. Yeah, we'd never round up a bunch of people due to their ethnicity and stick them in camps. And I'm sure we wouldn't do that to folks based on their political philosophy, right?

...right?

Blue said...

right.

Anonymous said...

Well ......it sure looks like they`re setting the stage for it does`nt it. I`ll never know if it does happen , as I will be dead trying to stop it.