Posted on 07/30/2013 7:53:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Drone surveillance in the United States does not require a warrant, but the practice remains limited, the FBI told Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., in a letter after he placed a hold on James Comey’s nomination to be the new FBI director.
“[T]he FBI does not, and has no plans to use [unmanned aerial vehicles] to conduct general surveillance not related to a specific investigation or assessment,” Stephan Kelly, the assistant director at the FBI’s Office of Congressional Affairs, wrote Paul.
Kelly said that UAVs, or drones, have only been used for surveillance in the United States 10 times since 2006, in cases related to “kidnappings, search and rescue operations, drug interdictions, and fugitive investigations.”
Extant Supreme Court rulings suggest that such surveillance does not qualify as a “search” for purposes of the Fourth Amendment, Kelly added, and so does not require a warrant.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
This is a battle our conservative leaders need to fight with all they have.
LLS
Except that what we are talking about here is a technology that will enable the government to park an invisible police car outside your house and watch (and record) it continuously, and to simultaneously track (and record) everywhere you go when you leave it.
There’s the rub right there...SHOULDN’T
Now, as for ‘drone’ vs. ‘cruiser’: There’s a reason I put up a PRIVACY fence. A cop can only see up the boundaries I may put up, a drone does so much more.
Soon we’ll all be reading of the great new high-tech gadgets mounted on said drones. Infrared, sonar, electronic surveillance, etc. Even the cops are not allowed to use those wall penetrating ‘viewers’.
How soon before it becomes a crime to shield your home from the outside world....You know, ‘if you have nothing to hide....’
I agree. When I see “no different than” statements I usually disregard them because there there are almost always differences.
I’m with you there.
Best to You and Yours.
citizens to FBI - yes it does
Oddly enough there are things that are completely legal in private but illegal in public.
What happens when there is no private?
This sorta thing makes me wanna start digging down underground and become a “mole-person”... The after centuries of “Progressive utopia” us Morlocks can pop up and eat some of them tasty Eloi
“Unless you are sunbathing nude in your fenced back yard. (Not really a good idea. Some teenager with a quad-copter will have the video on YouTube before your sunburns starts to hurt!)”
BOL! Even pre teeners might do the scanning.
Okay.
Just so long as you agree that blowing them out of the air with a 12 gauge, 3 inch magnum turkey load doesn't require a hunting permit.
Putting a camera in someones back yard to collect evidence has always needed a search warrant, but flying a camera into someones backyard does not?
Idiots.
Totalitarian, Unconstitutional Traitors to the Union, who are... idiots.
My country is slipping away...
5.56mm
The technology might be more sophisticated than you think.
fine, but do you want police to follow you everywhere you go and not hve a reason to do it other than they just can?
it is one thing to see officer shoot-yer-dog just driving by the neighborhoodperiodically and noticing you doing something in your yard. it’s another when the state actively surveils you constantly to build huge case files on you and know what you’ve done better than yourself, and you have no idea why. we are not east germany.
thank you, exactly. why some people are just fine with a police state unchecked is beyond me. “technology” is NOT and acceptable excuse to just allow it unchecked and to ignore the law of requiring warrants.
“Methinks it’s time for the FBI director to chat with Mike Kelly, Trey Gowdy and Darrell Issa. These gentlemen, I’m sure, will make it abundantly clear to the FBI that, suggestive “extant rulings” aside, there is no freakin’ way they can conduct domestic surveillance operations without a proper search warrant.”
You are kidding right???? These three chest pounders are going to do something about it?
So far they are 0 out of 4 on the “phony scandals”.
Holder is still walking around free and not in jail for his contempt of congress and perjury charges...
These three have been lied to some many times by people under oath that most of the Obama admin would be in jail for perjury and they do........nothing but pound their chest for the TV.
“FBI does not, and has no plans to use...”
Hold them to that statement, Rand!
Kidding? No.
Chest thumpers? Hah. Who would YOU suggest ? Lindsey Graham? John McCain?
Troll.
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