Drones in US skies are a civil liberties menace

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“Gorgon Stare will be looking at a whole city,” explained Maj. Gen. James Poss. “So there will be no way for the adversary to know what we’re looking at, and we can see everything.”

At the time he made that comment about surveillance drones over Afghanistan, Poss was the Air Force’s top intelligence officer. He was preparing to leave the Pentagon and move over to the Federal Aviation Administration. His job was to begin executing the plan to allow those same surveillance drones to fly over U.S. cities.

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