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2015-06-02 -Land of the Free

FBI has its own air force and aerial recce capability.

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-06-02 06:10|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 "The FBI's aviation program is not secret,"

Warrantless surveillance behind front companies? Not secret? Really?

Posted by JohnQC 2015-06-02 09:19|| 2015-06-02 09:19|| Front Page Top

#2 If they weren't trying to hide it... why have front corporations?

Posted by DarthVader 2015-06-02 09:45|| 2015-06-02 09:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Just for the what it's worth department, setting up clandestine arrangements such as these requires a.... great deal of inter-agency coordination. You just don't plop down a gov't gas credit card and say fill'r up please. Lots of other logistical issues are involved, to include registrations, pilot names and licenses, vehicles, maintenance contracts, taxes, hanger fees, security, the list can get quite lengthy.

Did I mention contracts and taxes ?

The mechanisms and legal arrangements for such activities are well established. The proponent government agency is fairly obvious.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-06-02 10:15|| 2015-06-02 10:15|| Front Page Top

#4 and, at times, cellphone surveillance

Dollars to donuts, sniffing cell phones is the primary activity. Warrants? We don' need no stinkin' warrants.

Posted by SteveS 2015-06-02 11:28|| 2015-06-02 11:28|| Front Page Top

#5 To the unknown reviewer who snuffed Knuckles. Thank you.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-06-02 13:08|| 2015-06-02 13:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Much like a class-action lawsuit, wherein the plaintiffs are intentionally obfuscated in mass, street scene monitoring won't require a warrant anymore than a prowl car or cameras at stoplights.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-06-02 19:16|| 2015-06-02 19:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Its actually pretty easy to set up. Set up a logistical contract with a part 135 carrier with an owner that is cleared. Have them at busy airports where there is significant corperate or logistical air travel. Pay them to lease specific aircraft. Have the carrier mod the aircraft to spec. The carrier will fly and FBI passengers inside will do the spook work. The contract shows them flying people from one location to another, no one is the wiser.

Posted by 49 Pan 2015-06-02 20:34|| 2015-06-02 20:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Looks like our mighty OWG NAU? Unitarian Govt-Congress answer to the FBI-VS-CIA argument over domestic turf jurisdiction + warrantless surveillance is to give the FBI its own air force.

Unfortunately, in covert ops or surveilliance too often the FBI may NOT actually be the FBI despite indicias or evidencias to the contrary.

WHEN IT COMES TO GOING TO JAIL, ETC. FOR BREAKING LAWS, PROTOCOLS GUIDLEINES AND DIRECTIVES, THAT WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE BROKEN, FEDS ARE NO DIFERENT THAN CROOKS IN WANTING TO PASS THE BUCK OR BLAME SOMEONE ELSE FOR THEIR ACTIONS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-06-02 23:14|| 2015-06-02 23:14|| Front Page Top

#9 I suspect the real news here is that its NOT 1947, + instead of the USAF becoming a separate service from the US Army we may be seeing the consolidation or merging of aspects of the FBI + CIA???

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