{"id":25546,"date":"2011-01-26T20:03:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T03:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=25546"},"modified":"2011-01-26T20:03:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T03:03:15","slug":"no-dhs-spy-drones-over-america-anytime-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/no-dhs-spy-drones-over-america-anytime-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"No DHS Spy Drones Over America Anytime Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Doherty, a top official with the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Science and Technology Directorate speaks to Wired&#8217;s Danger Room about technology and homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>Police departments around the country are warming up to unmanned spy planes. But don\u2019t expect the Department of Homeland Security to catch drone fever any time soon. It\u2019s too controversial for an agency already getting hammered for naked scanners and junk-touching. Sure, DHS flies some Predators along the Mexican border. But a broader deployment, above the majority of American skies, to stop terror attacks? Not likely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how much [drones] will be used within the U.S.,\u201d says Ruth Doherty, a top official with the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Science and Technology Directorate tasked with countering the domestic threat of homemade bombs. Asked about domestic drone use for bomb-spotting by Danger Room, she replies, \u201cA case has to be made that they\u2019re economically feasible, not intrusive and acceptable to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2011\/01\/spy-drones-over-america-dhs-would-rather-not\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WiredDangerRoom+%28Blog+-+Danger+Room%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Even DHS is Freaked Out by Spy Drones Over America | Danger Room | Wired.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=c165a878-16ed-427f-bcf3-29700213264e\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Doherty, a top official with the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Science and Technology Directorate speaks to Wired&#8217;s Danger Room about technology and homeland Security. Police departments around the country are warming up to unmanned spy planes. But don\u2019t expect the Department of Homeland Security to catch drone fever any time soon. It\u2019s too controversial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[1246,1095,1980,5212,2304,1015,1093,1228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25548,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25546\/revisions\/25548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}