FBI’s covert air force of surveillance aircraft shrouded in secrecy and hidden in shell corporations
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Friday, May 15, 2015
Unbeknownst to most Americans, the nation’s premier federal law enforcement agency has its own air force and uses it to spy on people.
As reported by ARS Technica, as tensions surrounding the recent protests and violence in Baltimore began to subside, a small squadron of innocuous-looking aircraft circled overhead, keeping watch on the neighborhoods most affected by rioting and other acts.
The planes gave Baltimore City Police overhead surveillance capabilities both in monitoring the protests and keeping an eye out for any potential criminal activity.
Further reporting by the Washington Post noted that the planes – some of them, anyway – are part of the FBI’s secret surveillance air force made up of small aircraft outfitted with sensors that were perfected on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to gather intelligence.
The Post said the planes have quietly seen service nationwide. They are equipped with high-definition night and daylight surveillance systems, and they are giving police a new way to spot curfew breakers (and other activity as of yet undetermined) from above cities.
Civil libertarians are raising concerns
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