\nInfowars.com
\nJuly 4, 2013
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U.S. Customs and Border\u00a0Protection is now lending Predator drones to a wide range of federal, state, and local agencies for domestic surveillance and possible \u201cnon-lethal\u201d strikes, according to federal documents released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.<\/p>\n
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The FBI<\/a>, the U.S. Marshals<\/a> and even the Texas Department of Public Safety<\/a> have used CBP Predator drones in U.S. airspace. In 2010, CBP reported that future drone payloads could include \u201cnon-lethal weapons designed to immobilize targets of interest.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Last month, FBI Director Robert Mueller admitted that the FBI has used drones domestically<\/a>.<\/p>\n The new documents expose the wide extent of domestic drone use. The EFF released the documents after a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.<\/p>\n CBP drone use by other agencies has increased over eight times between 2010 and 2012.<\/p>\n By 2016, CBP wants drones airborne in domestic airspace 24 hours a day, seven days a week to ensure a \u201clayered security strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n Predator drone mission data can be fused into an information sharing center for federal, state, and local agencies across the country.<\/p>\n This drone data center would operate like current Homeland Security fusion centers which have violated Americans\u2019 civil liberties and privacy according to a two-year Senate investigation.<\/a><\/p>\n The General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone, perhaps the most well-known unmanned aerial vehicle, is extensively used overseas by the U.S. Air Force and the CIA for armed drone strikes.<\/p>\n According to Policymic<\/a>, in a four-year period drone strikes killed at least 800 innocent people in addition to 22 \u201csuspected terrorists\u201d, a civilian kill ratio of 36 to 1. Pakistani sources have claimed an even higher <\/a>civilian kill ratio of 50 to 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n In June, Brandon Bryant revealed his former career as an Air Force drone operator<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bryant saw drone strikes kill people through a computer screen half-way across the world.<\/p>\n This method of killing is no doubt dehumanizing. Men, women, and children are reduced to pixelated targets for drone operators who grew up in arcades.<\/p>\n Near the end of his career, Bryant received a past mission \u201cscore card\u201d showing over 1,600 deaths.<\/p>\n Bryant said he can still see the blood and gore when he closes his eyes. Doctors have diagnosed him with post-traumatic stress disorder.<\/p>\n Only time will tell when Predator drones will be used to kill Americans on U.S. soil, unless they have done so already.<\/p>\n Source Documents:<\/p>\n 2010 \u201cConcept of Operations\u201d Report to Congress<\/a><\/p>\n 2012 CPB UAS Mission Prioritization Process Presentation<\/a><\/p>\n 2010 Daily Flight Logs<\/a><\/p>\n 2011 Daily Flight Logs \u2014 Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n 2011 Daily Flight Logs \u2014 Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n 2012 Daily Flight Logs \u2014 Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n 2012 Daily Flight Logs \u2014 Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n