A bill intended to reassert individuals’ Fourth Amendment rights when it comes to aerial surveillance operations was introduced in the Senate on Wednesday. The Protecting Individuals From Mass Aerial Surveillance Act, introduced by Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Dean Heller, R-Nev., would require federal agencies to obtain a warrant before conducting aerial surveillance operations. Any […]

Victims of U.S. drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia are being compensated with large amounts of cash — but it's not officially U.S. money.

“Have you seen the latest airstrike videos from operations against #ISIL in #Iraq?” the U.S. Central Command tweeted this morning.

In the early morning hours of February 5, a group of armed men – some dressed in Pakistani police uniforms – appeared at Kareem Khan’s home, awoke him and his family at gunpoint, and took him away in an unmarked vehicle. Khan was hooded, shackled around the wrists and ankles, and driven for hours, eventually arriving […]

The National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligence, as the primary method to locate targets for lethal drone strikes – an unreliable tactic that results in the deaths of innocent or unidentified people.