As Joe Biden once said, this story about the US government using a drone as a domestic surveillance tool, is either a BFD, or the Patriot Ledger will have egg on their face.
Here is a Globe story from last year about the mysterious UFO flying overhead for weeks, in which the FAA said it was not a drone, but a plane. Drone, plane…unmanned vs piloted, are those semantics that tries to minimize the Big Brother world we live in? Should we even care what kind of tools being used to monitor the “bad guys”?
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Drones have been used for surveillance. One public radio station in the Midwest has sought funds to use one in news gathering.
But please connect the dots on this diary. Is someone alleging that a drone was used in Quincy?
…a drone was used to to track Khairullozhon Matanov, the recently indicted friend of the Marathon bombers…as the link outlines.
…and I certainly hope not for an attack on domestic soil, is this really any different from using search helicopters?