From macwheel99@wowway.com Fri Jul 6 02:33:40 2018 From: Al Mac Wow To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: [drone-list] Beltway bandits fly armed drones Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:33:40 +0000 Message-ID: <172289281979.3881296.7295856656880210988.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============6096488145905319455==" --===============6096488145905319455== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In our studies of drone crashes, we found multiple instances where the armed drone was being flown by personnel, sub-contracted to the US military, to carry out the warfare. This was logical, given the large volume of sub-contractors used in recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. =20 Now comes journalism investigation into how widespread the military use of drones is really by sub-contractors, and not US armed forces, nor NATO allies, nor CIA personnel, nor equivalent personnel of the intelligence agencies of our allies. This may be a violation of US government policies, easily changed to retroactively permit this stuff. It might not violate UK rules, but implementation may be contributing to excessive crashes. http://www.nouse.co.uk/2013/03/05/contractors-fly-drones-for-us-and-uk-milit ary/=20 =20 Britain supposedly has just as many drone strikes in Afghanistan as the USA, so maybe a UK drone did the mysterious Pakistan Feb 6+8 strikes? http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/03/05/us_officials_deny_two_strike s_were_work_of_drones=20 =20 Al Mac =3D Alister William Macintyre 2013 Feb I become temporarily famous: http://cryptome.org/2013/02/drone-nations.htm =20 -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailin= g moderator at companys(a)stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://m= ailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/drone-list ----- End forwarded message ----- --=20 Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============6096488145905319455==--