{"id":11010,"date":"2014-04-17T13:49:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T18:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11010"},"modified":"2014-04-17T17:12:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T22:12:37","slug":"motherboard-every-drone-mission-the-fbi-admits-to-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11010","title":{"rendered":"Motherboard: Every Drone Mission the FBI Admits to Flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motherboard: <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/every-drone-mission-the-fbi-admits-to-flying\">Every Drone Mission the FBI Admits to Flying<\/a> by Shawn Musgrave:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The FBI insists that it uses drone technology in the U.S. to conduct surveillance in \u201cvery limited circumstances.\u201d What those particular circumstances are remain a mystery, because the Bureau refuses to identify instances where agents deployed unmanned aerial vehicles, even as far back as 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The obscurity of the FBI drone missions, like that of other domestic law enforcement agencies, has frustrated advocates for transparency and privacy. In a letter to Senator Rand Paul in July 2013, the agency indicated that it had used drones a total of ten times since late 2006\u2014eight criminal cases and two national security cases\u2014and had authorized drone deployments in three additional cases, but did not actually fly them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motherboard: Every Drone Mission the FBI Admits to Flying by Shawn Musgrave:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11011,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010\/revisions\/11011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}