In June, Representative Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, introduced legislation that would compel law enforcement agencies to seek a search warrant before collecting information with a drone.
One official called those sessions "very, very productive," but declined to say whether his information contributed to a drone attack in Somalia last month.
At the same time, a 3D model of building 2 (exterior) was reconstructed by using the information of images taken from a drone (Refer to Fig. 7) and 3D classrooms were also reconstructed using camera images.
And hey, if you're in the mood for more information on drone attacks, ProPublica has a great primer, appropriately titled "Everything We Know So Far About Drone Strikes".
The Obama administration recently provided the Senate Intelligence Committee with information about drone attacks, and Senator Rand Paul led a 13-hour filibuster to skewer the administration's drone policies.
Earlier this year, Marcy Wheeler, who blogs about national security at Emptywheel, counted nearly a dozen occasions on which Congress had requested more information about drone strikes from the administration and been ignored.
Information about drone strikes is notoriously hard to verify.
Take her first answer, and substitute the phrases "information on drone attacks" or "background on detention" — to name two areas in which President Obama has, rightly, been criticized for a lack of transparency.
They believe that Western journalists are coming into Syria now to acquire new targeting information for drone and missile strikes against them.
He said pervasive drone use can't safely happen without an air space management system that covers the lower air space where drones fly, and relays that real-time information to drone operators, manufacturers and app developers about air space conditions.
