US spy drones turning country into police state: Ex-Senate candidate
A new Pentagon report justifying the deployment of military spy drones over the US is further evidence that the country is developing into a “domestic police state,” a former US Senate candidate says.
“The federal government of the United States is increasingly deciding to use the American military in ways that are a violation of the constitutional traditions of this country,” said Mark Dankof, who is also a broadcaster and pastor in San Antonio, Texas.
“It’s very clear that the average American citizen can and will be subjected to things that are completely unconstitutional, warrantless spying, warrantless break-ins, political profiling of people who are loyal dissenters and peaceful Americans,” Dankof told Press TV on Thursday.
Dankof said the US is moving toward becoming a “police state” similar to Israel. Israel has played a major role in assisting US law enforcement departments to increase their domestic surveillance activities, he added.
The US Defense Department has deployed drones several times to spy over American soil over the past decade, according to a new report obtained by USA Today under the Freedom of Information Act.
The Pentagon has publicly posted at least a partial list of the drone missions that have flown in non-military airspace over the United States, USA Today reported on Wednesday.
Use of spy drones over the United States became public in 2013 when former FBI director Robert Mueller testified before Congress that the agency employed spy drones during investigations on rare occasions.
The United States regularly uses drones for airstrikes and spying missions in Afghanistan as well as Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border. Washington has also been conducting targeted killings through remotely-controlled armed drones in Somalia and Yemen.
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