Craig Whitlock
The Washington Post
June 21, 2013
The FBI has received clearance from federal aviation officials to conduct
drone surveillance operations in the United States on at least four occasions
since 2010, according to public records and U.S. officials.
The FBI began seeking permission in 2009 from the Federal Aviation
Administration to fly drones domestically and received authorization for its
first operations a year later, according to documents released Thursday by the FAA.
The documents provide virtually no detail on where the FBI has operated
drones in U.S. airspace, for what purpose or how long the missions lasted. But
they shed some additional light on the origins and extent of the
FBI’s secretive drone program, which FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III revealed Wednesday
in Senate testimony.
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