The FBI has received clearance from federal aviation officials to
conduct drone surveillance operations in the United States on at least
four occasions since 2010, according to public records and U.S.
officials.
The FBI began seeking permission in 2009 from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly drones domestically and received authorization for its first operations a year later, according to documents released Thursday by the FAA.
The documents provide virtually no detail on where the FBI has operated drones in U.S. airspace, for what purpose or how long the missions lasted. But they shed some additional light on the origins and extent of the FBI’s secretive drone program, which FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III revealed Wednesday in Senate testimony.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-has-received-aviation-clearance-for-at-least-four-domestic-drone-operations/2013/06/20/a040edb6-d9df-11e2-8ed8-7adf8eba6e9a_print.html
The FBI began seeking permission in 2009 from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly drones domestically and received authorization for its first operations a year later, according to documents released Thursday by the FAA.
The documents provide virtually no detail on where the FBI has operated drones in U.S. airspace, for what purpose or how long the missions lasted. But they shed some additional light on the origins and extent of the FBI’s secretive drone program, which FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III revealed Wednesday in Senate testimony.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-has-received-aviation-clearance-for-at-least-four-domestic-drone-operations/2013/06/20/a040edb6-d9df-11e2-8ed8-7adf8eba6e9a_print.html
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