Mueller: FBI Drones on US Soil, used ‘Minimally’ (Young Turks)

Juan Cole 06/20/2013

FBI director Robert Mueller admitted Wednesday that the FBI sometimes deploys drones over US territory.

Cenk points out that if the Bureau can use the drones minimally, there is no check on them being used extensively, and he evokes Orwell’s image of Big Brother.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page