The nonprofit watchdog group Electronic Frontier Foundation used a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to obtain CBP documents in which outfitting the drones was included.
“CBP needs to assure the public that it will not equip its Predators with any weapons – lethal or otherwise,” the foundation wrote in a blog post. “Without first addressing these issues, the agency – and Congress – should halt the expansion of CBP’s Predator drone program.”
The San Francisco-based foundation sued CBP to get a 2010 “Concept of Operations” report about the Predator program, three years of flight logs and other records.
By: Perla Trevizo | July 04, 2013 | Arizona Daily Star
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