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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. it's true military drones cannot legally spy on americans. there are about 60 organizations, mostly police departments and government agencies that have licenses to operate surveillance drones here in the u.s. drone proliferatio...

Calculation about what it's worth doing because the costs of doing it are now so low. joining us, spencer ackerman who reports on national security for wire.com's 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. >> that's right. these are places that have the drones, hangars, runways. they're places where you train remote pilots how to fly ...

Administration's use of drones. so for the time being, drones, those flying, spying killing i machines are an american thing. an american thing we're all used to seeing in other countries. in war zones. we're 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 vehicle was a global hawk drone. it is a surveillance drone, the kind that spies, not kills. it has ...

Worth doing because the costs of doing it are now so low. joining us, spencer ackerman who reports on national security for wire.com's 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. >> that's right. these are places that have the drones, hangars, runways. they're places where you train remote pilots how to fly these things from air-condi...

To be, if you pardon the term, sniffing drugs. they're going to be flying over -- >> how smart are these? >> not smart enough to make these kinds of decisions which we don't endorse. they'll 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. that's where the market for drones is going to go as the war in afghanistan sort of winds down. >> so we've been talking primarily here about spying drones. the kind of look and see drones. obviously a lot of them are killing drones for lack of a better term. r...