U.S. Drones Patrol Border at High Cost to Taxpayers

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U.S. Drones Patrol Border at High Cost to Taxpayers

by The Investigative Newswire on June 21, 2012 · comment

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Unmanned aerial vehicle of the CBP Air and Marine Unmanned Aircraft System. (Predator unarmed) photo: Wikimedia Commons

At U.S. border, expensive drones generate lots of buzz, few results by Andrew Becker & G.W. Schulz for CIR TUCSON, Ariz. – An aerial drone, zooming somewhere out of sight high above the cooling scrubland, first spotted the [...]

U.S. Drone Death Count is Disputed

by The Investigative Newswire on June 21, 2012 · comment

A Predator drone in US Air Force base in 2011's summer. photo: Wikimedia Commons

Obama Administration’s Drone Death Figures Don’t Add Up by Justin Elliott for ProPublica Last month, a “senior administration official” said the number of civilians killed in drone strikes in Pakistan under President Obama is in the “single digits.” But last [...]