Close The Blinds: More Gov't Mini-Drones On The Way

That’s not the neighbor kid’s Christmas present outside your bathroom window.

When most Americans think of drones, they think of the government’s targeted killing of Al Qaeda operatives overseas.

Lately, the debate in Washington has been over the killing of Americans, like U.S-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was taken out by the CIA in September 2011. Pressed on the program by Congress, CIA director nominee John Brennan recently told lawmakers “this administration has not carried out drone strikes inside the United States and has no intention of doing so.”

But despite that pledge, there is every intention to expand the use of so-called mini-drones inside the U.S. Used mostly by local police and first responders, the Federal Aviation Administration has already granted 327 licenses, and it projects as many as 10,000 licensed systems by 2017.

Just police and first-responders. Because the government never overreaches on anything, right?

In other news, I’m going back to Arizona to explore abandoned mine shafts that I can make comfortable.