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FBI flying surveillance aircraft over US cities; planes traced to fake companies
AP ^ | June 2, 2015

Posted on 06/02/2015 6:47:33 AM PDT by maggief

The FBI is operating a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the country carrying video and, at times, cellphone surveillance technology -- all hidden behind fictitious companies that are fronts for the government, The Associated Press has learned.

The planes' surveillance equipment is generally used without a judge's approval, and the FBI said the flights are used for specific, ongoing investigations. In a recent 30-day period, the agency flew above more than 30 cities in 11 states across the country, an AP review found.

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1 posted on 06/02/2015 6:47:33 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Nachum

Ping.


2 posted on 06/02/2015 6:49:06 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: maggief
Related thread:

The FBI is operating a small air force to spy on Americans

3 posted on 06/02/2015 6:52:45 AM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderators)
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To: maggief

With all this sophistication and not one iota of information about who the guy is in the white house?


4 posted on 06/02/2015 6:55:38 AM PDT by nikos1121 ("The enemy of your enemy is your enemy!" B. Netanyahu)
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To: maggief
The FBI is operating a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the country carrying video and, at times, cellphone surveillance technology -- all hidden behind fictitious companies that are fronts for the government, The Associated Press has learned. The planes' surveillance equipment is generally used without a judge's approval, and the FBI said the flights are used for specific, ongoing investigations. In a recent 30-day period, the agency flew above more than 30 cities in 11 states across the country, an AP review found.

A dictatorial government operating outside any Constitutional boundaries and supported by a Congress that thinks it will be the last to be eaten.

5 posted on 06/02/2015 6:55:38 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: maggief
Hello, Vandelay Industries...



6 posted on 06/02/2015 7:03:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: nikos1121

Oh, there’s plenty of information on the guy. It simply is not your prerogative to know, little grasshopper.


7 posted on 06/02/2015 7:08:17 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: nikos1121
With all this sophistication and not one iota of information about who the guy is in the white house?

+1

tough to claim it's about national security... when you're allowing thousands across our border every day

8 posted on 06/02/2015 7:09:24 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Hi George, Shouldn’t you be designing buildings?


9 posted on 06/02/2015 7:11:24 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: justlurking
Six or seven of these in a barrage would be more than enough to give pilots pause.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODTeaV-CwIQ
10 posted on 06/02/2015 7:11:40 AM PDT by Robert Teesdale (III% | 4GW)
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Donate here!

S AVE O UR S ITE

Let's Git-R-Done!


11 posted on 06/02/2015 7:13:15 AM PDT by RedMDer (Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
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To: sten
tough to claim it's about national security... when you're allowing thousands across our border every day

Even more so when the "Department of Homeland Security" is hauling them into the heartland by the busload.

12 posted on 06/02/2015 7:15:30 AM PDT by IamConservative (If fighting fire with fire is a good idea, why do the pros use water?)
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To: Don Corleone

And how I DOUBT one would be able to have the illegal search data thrown out; regardless of the ‘crimes’ (yea, they WILL be plural...anything that will stick). No discovery allowed (National Security, you don’t say?) and your assets ‘frozen’

...all hail the Land of the (once) Free


13 posted on 06/02/2015 7:21:24 AM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Army Air Corps

“The planes’ surveillance equipment is generally used without a judge’s approval”

What a shock. :-)


14 posted on 06/02/2015 7:51:13 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: maggief

Where are all those people here on FR and elsewhere who claimed the reports like this were from tin foil hat conspiracy wackos?

??


15 posted on 06/02/2015 9:47:34 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: maggief

Just paint Jade Helm on the side of the aircraft and everyone can calm down.


16 posted on 06/02/2015 9:50:38 AM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: nikos1121

make a giant size copy of O’s funny birth certificate and put it on your roof or backyard...


17 posted on 06/02/2015 10:14:36 AM PDT by rolling_stone (1984)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Here ya go.

Have a good look at the bottom of the fuselage.

18 posted on 06/02/2015 10:49:34 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: maggief

There is a small plane flying around here for the third day in a row. It flies at various low altitudes, numerous times at 500 feet. Makes me think of Henry Hill.


19 posted on 06/02/2015 11:23:57 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First

Just heard it again. About the fifth time today.


20 posted on 06/02/2015 11:26:39 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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