Spying Drones News Today

On monday. the global hawk drone was in maryland because that is where the global hawk drone lives on an american base in maryland. this is our new normal. we are now a country that has droned stationed all over the country. there are 64 american drone bases. 64. a non-profit group that promotes public access to information put this map together showing where they are. its true military drones cannot legally spy on americans. there are about 60 organizations, mostly police departments and govern...

Calculation about what its worth doing because the costs of doing it are now so low. joining us, spencer ackerman who reports on national security for wire.coms excellent danger room and written much on this subject. spencer, great to have you. >> thanks for having any. >> you guys reported today there are 64 drone sites in the u.s. what should we take from that? is it just where we store them? is there implications to it it sounds like a big number. maybe it is. >> thats right. these are places...

Administrations use of drones. so for the time being, drones, those flying, spying killing i machines are an american thing. an american thing were all used to seeing in other countries. in war zones. were not used to seeing them stateside here in america. maybe we should be. a drone belonging to the u.s. navy crashed on monday. a crash occurred around noon. there were no injuries which is sort of the point of unmanned aerial vehicles which is what drones are. this particular unmanned aerial veh...

Worth doing because the costs of doing it are now so low. joining us, spencer ackerman who reports on national security for wire.coms excellent danger room and written much on this subject. spencer, great to have you. >> thanks for having any. >> you guys reported today there are 64 drone sites in the u.s. what should we take from that? is it just where we store them? is there implications to it? it sounds like a big number. maybe it is. >> thats right. these are places that have the drones, han...

To be, if you pardon the term, sniffing drugs. theyre going to be flying over -- >> how smart are these? >> not smart enough to make these kinds of decisions which we dont endorse. theyll be over navy boats that are going to be scouting out. drug dealers. some of them increasingly are going to go toward civilian, law enforcement use. thats where the market for drones is going to go as the war in afghanistan sort of winds down. >> so weve been talking primarily here about spying drones. the kind ...

Maryland. to be exact, a marsh in maryland on monday. the global hawk drone was in maryland because that is where the global hawk drone lives on an american base in maryland. this is our new normal. we are now a country that has droned stationed all over the country. there are 64 american drone bases. 64. a non-profit group that promotes public access to information put this map together showing where they are. its true military drones cannot legally spy on americans. there are about 60 organiza...

Of people think the opposite. they approve of the obama administrations use of drones. so for the time being, drones, those flying, spying killing machines are an american thing. an american thing were all used to seeing in other countries. in war zones. were not used to seeing them stateside here in america. maybe we should be. a drone belonging to the u.s. navy crashed on monday. a crash occurred around noon. there were no injuries which is sort of the point of unmanned aerial vehicles which i...

And it will probably stay that way until we begin selling our drone technology to every tom, dick and hungry. until then were on top. today in pakistan, our great ally, pakistan, nbc reports that a u.s. drone reportedly shot two missiles into an inn, four militants hiding there on the second floor were reportedly kill it was the second deadly u.s. drone strike in pakistan in two days. our air force says it wants to send more drones to its forces in the pacific and south america, once the war in ...

>> well, some of them are going to be, if you pardon the term, sniffen dring drugs. theyre going to be flying ov over -- >> how smart are these? >> not smart enough to make these kinds of decisions which we dont endorse. theyll be over navy boats that are going to be scouting out. drug dealers. some of them increasingly are going to go toward civilian, law enforcement use. thats where the market for drones is going to go as the war in afghanistan sort of winds down. >> so weve been talking prima...