http://cryptome.org/2013/06/usa-drones.htm
21 June 2013
*USA Drones Compilation*
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From: "Al Mac Wow" <macwheel99[at]wowway.com>
To: "'drone-list'" <drone-list[at]lists.stanford.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:08:00 -0500
Cc: 'Isaac Kramer' <ikramer[at]nacdl.org>
Subject: Re: [drone-list] Sen. Paul & FBI Director on Domestic Drone Use
It may be of interest to people correlating this info that:
- 2012 early, Congress directed FAA to issue rules for drones to be
operated in American National Air Space (NAS). This was part of the FAA
Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (P.L. 112-95) designed to promote and
facilitate the use of civilian unmanned aircraft.[1]
- Most of us learned that hundreds of organizations had been issued FAA
permission to operate drones in USA.
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)[2] sent FOIA to FAA requesting
identification of those organizations. Info has been trickling into EFF,
which has been sharing the results on their web site. Most of the initial
certificates, which the FAA told EFF about, were issued to government
agencies at all levels of government, and to colleges and universities.
- Consequently, many of us following stories of domestic drone usage,
knew over a year ago, that the FBI was among the government agencies
operating drones in domestic US air space.
- Muckrock,[3] worked with EFF to send FOIA to the individual named
organizations, asking for clarification on how they planned to use their
drones. As that info trickles in, it also is shared on their web sites.
- Other groups did FOIA in parallel with EFF and Muckrock, such as the
news media within the cities and states where their local government
agencies had received drone usage permission.
- Many activist groups have been hammering these gov agencies, seeking
privacy reassurance, which has been very slow to come out, because the
pattern has been to ignore privacy concerns until it seems like it may
become a major policy issue.
- In addition to what EFF found from FAA about specific organizations
directly authorized to use drones for specific missions, there are loaners
by one agency to another, where the FAA authorization is to the loaning
organization, without any report to FAA or anyone else about the loaned
scenarios. Examples:
- An IG report found that CBP had been loaning its drones to many other
federal agencies.
- DHS is loaning its drones to many local police agencies.[4]
- Many institutions are flying drones without getting FAA
permission. I dont know what the #s are, but if the stories in the news
media are any indication, the vast majority of organizations flying drones
in the USA, are doing so without FAA authorization, even though the fines
are astronomical if caught, like $10,000.00 per day of violation.
- News has come out that when US military and CIA personnel are being
trained in the use of military drones, they often practice, using innocent
American civilian vehicle traffic. Congress has asked the Secretary of
Defense for info regarding this, and that info is just about due to be
delivered, assuming the Pentagon decides to cooperate with Congress.
- When we look at details of drone crashes (100+ counting), we learn
that most military and CIA drones are actually operated by personnel with
government sub-contractors. One of the best resources, for info about
drone crashes is Drone Wars UK[5] library of drone resources.[6]
Here is map of 64
bases<http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/64-drone-bases-on-us-soil/>
inside
USA allegedly used to control military and CIA drone usage around the world.
[7] Here are just<https://publicintelligence.net/dod-us-drone-activities-map/>
the
military ones, with list of names of bases involved.[8]
Here<https://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/06/us_drone_bases.html> are
links to 110 coming. They also talk about 88 actually operating right now
(88-64=24 not on earlier list.).[9] Here is info about CIA bases for
drones<http://www.gearthhacks.com/downloads/related.php?file=31659>
around
the world.[10] All this info is as of when it was found out. Reality is
constantly evolving.
Here is map of US
cities<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/faa-releases-its-list-drone-certificates-leaves-many-questions-unanswered>,
where various institutions got FAA approval to fly drones over US airspace.
[11] This is as of April 2012. Here is December 2012 update.[12] Here is
revised again Feb 2013.[13]
Lots more have been added since then, not in public documents yet.
Color Coding:
Red Active;
Blue Expired;
Yellow Denied.
The civilian operations map does not, of course, include classified
operations by various branches of the military, CIA, NSA, Customs and
Border patrol, FBI, DEA, etc. alphabet soup of agencies, which may be
operating from other than the 64 military bases, or 88, or whatever the #
is.
Dont forget the ACLU map of USA constitution free
zone<http://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights-constitution-free-zone-map>
,[14] based on the notion that the border can include any place within 100
miles of the border, which includes most of the population of the USA.
Alister William Macintyre
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[1] https://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/09/drones_nas.html downloaded as *CRS
Drones in NAS 2012 Sept*. *CRS *= Congressional Research Service; *FAS* =
Federation of American Scientists; *NAS* = US National Air Space.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/toGPObss/http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/
PLAW-112publ95/pdf/PLAW-112publ95.pdf<http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/toGPObss/http:/www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-112publ95/pdf/PLAW-112publ95.pdf>
[2] https://www.eff.org/search/site/Drone
[3] https://www.muckrock.com/drone-census/
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/list/user-DroneWatch/ = List of places in USA
found to have drones, then been issued a FOIA request seeking info on what
they are being used for, info they should have already shared with FAA, so
it should not be a big deal to make a copy. Many of these org are
dysfunctional when it comes to responding to FOIA about this data.
[4] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/10/homeland-security-
increasingly-loaning-drones-to-l/<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/10/homeland-security-increasingly-loaning-drones-to-l/>
via<http://www.lawfareblog.com/2012/12/todays-headlines-and-commentary-325/>
http://www.lawfareblog.com/2012/12/todays-headlines-and-commentary-325/
[5] Drone Wars UK see *Drone Scribd Info*.
https://dronewarsuk.wordpress.com/
[6] https://dronewarsuk.wordpress.com/library-2/
[7] http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/64-drone-bases-on-us-soil/
https://publicintelligence.net/dod-us-drone-activities-map/
[8] https://publicintelligence.net/dod-us-drone-activities-map/
[9] https://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/06/us_drone_bases.html
https://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/2012/06/061412.html
[10] http://www.gearthhacks.com/downloads/related.php?file=31659
[11]
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/faa-releases-its-list-drone-certificates
-leaves-many-questions-unanswered<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/faa-releases-its-list-drone-certificates-leaves-many-questions-unanswered>
[12]
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/12/newly-released-drone-records-reveal-
extensive-military-flights-us<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/12/newly-released-drone-records-reveal-extensive-military-flights-us>
[13] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/02/faa-releases-new-list-drone-
authorizations-your-local-law-enforcement-agency-map<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/02/faa-releases-new-list-drone-authorizations-your-local-law-enforcement-agency-map>
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-02/which-us-towns-are-allowed-
fly-drones<http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-02/which-us-towns-are-allowed-fly-drones>
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?viz=MAP&q=select+col2+from+
1WuTyH62PmUF97oxo6IreT1BL_aw9HJN5pocwmwg&h=false&lat=44.087585
02824518&lng=-85.5615234375&z=4&t=1&l=col2&y=1&tmplt=2<https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?viz=MAP&q=select+col2+from+1WuTyH62PmUF97oxo6IreT1BL_aw9HJN5pocwmwg&h=false&lat=44.08758502824518&lng=-85.5615234375&z=4&t=1&l=col2&y=1&tmplt=2>
[14] http://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights-constitution-free-zone-map
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