Janet Napolitano and the Federal bureaucrats at the Department of Homeland Security would like to see more drones over US skies – tens of thousands of them. RT America has the story:

Napolitano & DHS daily work to curtail the remaining freedoms & privacy of US citizens

The United States already uses surveillance drones on its borders, but Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said during a hearing on Wednesday that flying unmanned aircraft inside the US could be the next step to ensuring “public safety.”

Sec. Napolitano weighed in on the topic of unmanned aerial vehicles during this week’s Committee on Homeland Security and suggested that implementing UAVs for domestic surveillance could be the next step in the United States’ amazingly accelerating drone program.

The Federal Aviation Administration is currently considering ground rules that will outline how the FAA can govern domestic drone use, and by 2020 they expect to see 30,000 UAVs soaring through US airspace. Speaking before a House panel on Wednesday, though, Sec. Napolitano suggested that deploying UAVs proactively to put an extra set over locales nowhere near America’s border may in fact be the next move.

“With respect to Science and Technology, that directorate, we do have a funded project,” she said. “I think it’s in California, looking at drones that could be utilized to give us situational awareness in a large public safety [matter] or disaster, such as a forest fire, and how they could give us better information.”

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Notice how Napolitano seems to throw ideas out, apparently looking for any excuse to get the drones over our heads. Anything to gain more power, more surveillance. This is the way the folks in Washington, DC think.

Tags: department of homeland security, domestic drones, drones over america, government tyranny, janet napolitano

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