From: Intelligent AeroSpace
COMMENT - Proposed legislation: No individual who has not been tested for psychopathy using the Hare Index, administered by a certified professional under the oversight of Dr. Hare will be hired by any agency of the Federal government or allowed to run for any elected office at the Federal level.
All officers and critical personnel of companies holding government contracts shall be tested as provided for above. The penalty for evading or ignoring this law will be treason, punished as allowed for in time of war.
WASHINGTON, 2 June 2015. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents are using a fleet of small aircraft
– under the front of fictitious businesses – armed with electro-optics
over the United States. The low-flying planes are equipped with video
and cell phone surveillance
systems, largely being used without the consent of a judge, to gather
intelligence related to specific, ongoing investigations, according to
reports.
An FBI official revealed that the federal agency flew surveillance aircraft, under the guise of fake companies, over more than 30 cities in 11 states throughout the U.S. in just the past month.
The Associated Press published an image of Cessna Caravan turboprop aircraft used for government surveillance; the Cessna Caravan cockpit is shown above.
A large and growing crowd of U.S. citizens are voicing concerns over, if not outright objecting, to the use of aircraft – especially unmanned aircraft systems (UAS); many groups have formed in protest, citing privacy infringement and safety fears. This revelation about the FBI’s use of small aircraft to surveil the public certainly won’t allay those fears. Will it set the aerospace industry back, or slow adoption of small and even unmanned aircraft for myriad commercial applications?
Reporters at the Associated Press (AP) broke the news today, marking the first time “law enforcement officials have confirmed the wide-scale use of the aircraft, which the AP traced to at least 13 fake companies.”
“The FBI’s aviation program is not secret,” FBI Spokesperson Christopher Allen said in a statement. FBI.gov provides the following description of the use of aircraft by the agency’s Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG):
The Associated Press published an image of Cessna Caravan turboprop aircraft used for government surveillance; the Cessna Caravan cockpit is shown above.
A large and growing crowd of U.S. citizens are voicing concerns over, if not outright objecting, to the use of aircraft – especially unmanned aircraft systems (UAS); many groups have formed in protest, citing privacy infringement and safety fears. This revelation about the FBI’s use of small aircraft to surveil the public certainly won’t allay those fears. Will it set the aerospace industry back, or slow adoption of small and even unmanned aircraft for myriad commercial applications?
Reporters at the Associated Press (AP) broke the news today, marking the first time “law enforcement officials have confirmed the wide-scale use of the aircraft, which the AP traced to at least 13 fake companies.”
“The FBI’s aviation program is not secret,” FBI Spokesperson Christopher Allen said in a statement. FBI.gov provides the following description of the use of aircraft by the agency’s Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG):
