The Right to Bear Drones
The government wants a carve out in hacking and surveillance law so it can disable drones over any of a number of facilities and operations.
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The Jetzon’s Self Driving Auto Car Drone Aint Here Yet
History shows again and again How nature points out the folly of men. Yeah, truer words never spoken. Even if in relation to Godzilla. And you can apply that to the relentlessly ballyhooed “autonomous driving automobiles”. Seriously, this stuff is Henny Youngman type of slapsick comedy. It ain’t happening. Okay, I am cribbing from Atrios, […]
Yes, the Drone Rule Book Is a One-Off
Over at The New Republic, I’ve got a more formal piece on the weird hybrid document that serves as Obama’s Drone Rule Book. In addition to some formal observations I made in this working thread, it has these descriptions from both “an administration official” and from Secrecy News’ Steven Aftergood, which I found particularly interesting. […]
Drone Rule Book, Working Thread
What ever happened to the inclusions of headers and footers in documents? It used to be, documents would ID what document you were reading on every page, which is really useful if one page walks or gets replaced with a new one. Now even life-and-death documents like the Drone Rule Book liberated by the ACLU […]
Eli Lake’s Portrayal of the CIA Director Campaign: Drones, Benghazi, and … ?
Eli Lake reports that John Brennan wants to stay on as CIA Director under President Hillary. That’s not surprising given that Brennan believes (as Lake notes) CIA Directors should get 10 year terms just like FBI Directors do. I thought maybe Brennan wanted to stick around to make sure he gets credit for bettering Allen […]
Key Area of Dispute on Drone Numbers: Number of Strikes
Dianne Feinstein is out with a statement applauding that I Con the Record has released drone kill numbers that — she suggests — proves the spooks know something we don’t and that the number of civilian casualties hasn’t been that high. “I want to commend the administration for taking this important step toward transparency by […]
The Bomb Robot Drone Killing Precedent
As you’ve no doubt heard, sniper(s) attacked the police protecting a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas last night, killing 5 cops. Dallas Police have released the name of one perpetrator, who was killed by police: Micah Johnson. Johnson was apparently an Army veteran; he was what experts deemed “tactically professional” based on review of […]
The CIA Is Preventing Congress from Learning that the Worst Allegations against Hillary Pertain to Drones
You probably heard that Jim Comey testified to the House Oversight Committee for over four hours today. You’ll see far less coverage of the second panel in that hearing, the testimony of Inspector Generals Steve Linick (from State) and Charles McCullough (from the IC). In addition to OGR Chair Jason Chaffetz suggesting the committee convene […]
Happy Flag-Waving Drone Document Dump
ODNI (update–and now I Con the Record) has released its report on the number of drone deaths. The overview is that the US intelligence community is reporting (more on that in a second) far, far fewer drone deaths than credible outside researchers do. (TBIJ, New American, Long War Journal) The IC numbers are for strikes occurring […]
Mullah Mansour Drone Strike: Important Milestone or Radicalizing Event?
How much more ironic could it be? More than 43 years after the last Americans evacuated Vietnam, ending our disastrous occupation there, the dateline reads Hanoi on President Barack Obama’s statement today on the US drone strike that killed Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour. Mansour was the head of Afghanistan’s Taliban but was in Pakistan at […]
