Tag Archives: drone strikes
Robot insects for surveillance and assassination
Researchers have developed a remote-controlled robot about the size of a fat housefly that mimics a fly’s aerial prowess. Developing a robot to do the same took more than a decade and a variety of technologies. It weighs just 80 milligrams and is controlled remotely. Each wing can be controlled independently. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/science/a-remote-controlled-robot-the-size-of-a-fly.html?ref=science The robot fly […]
CIA must respond to FOI request
Central Intelligence Agency must disclose a description of its records (to the court only) on drone strikes in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/16/us/court-says-cia-must-yield-some-data-on-drones.html?ref=world The court rejected an effort by the Obama administration to keep secret any aspect of the C.I.A.’s interest in the use […]
US tries to rationalize drones strikes on citizens
Two of the Predator drones pointed lasers on the trucks to pinpoint the targets, while the larger Reapers took aim and fired. And for the first time since the Civil War, the United States government had carried out the deliberate killing of an American citizen as a wartime enemy and without a trial. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/world/middleeast/anwar-al-awlaki-a-us-citizen-in-americas-cross-hairs.html?hp&_r=0 Then […]
Dirty Babylon 