United States to use drones in some limited law enforcement surveillance, FBI Director Robert Mueller said last Wednesday, triggering additional debate on President Barack Obama's domestic surveillance use.
Confirmation in response to U.S. senators said they want to know more about the federal government's increasing use of unmanned aircraft issue.
"The FBI is using drones to monitor stateside do?" Iowa Republican Senator Charles Grassley requested period, the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
"Yes," Muller said, was "a very, very minimal way, rarely used."
Muller did not go into detail, but the FBI later released a statement saying, unmanned aircraft just to watch the rest of the subjects, and to avoid a serious threat to law enforcement officers. The statement said that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration approved each use.
The FBI used the drones in a hostage-taking, this year in Alabama, a gunman, Jimmy Lee embankment, snatched off a school bus a boy, he was in an underground bunker, according to the statement.
The U.S. government has made no secret of its use drones monitoring the US-Mexico border.
The Obama administration has been defending their monitoring strategy from the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden released secret documents reveal a huge database of phone records every day, as well as coordination between the National Security Agency, and social media company.
U.S. officials said the plan aimed at countries outside the U.S. are suspected of planning to attack the militants, but they inevitably collect some data on Americans.
In his speech, Obama defended the use of armed drones, but in foreign countries that the United States should not be more than the United States to deploy armed UAVs.
U.S. Department of Justice revealed that domestic law enforcement agencies use two unmanned aircraft systems, according to the department statement sent to the Judiciary Committee on Wednesday Grassley's office. These two are the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Bureau.
Grassley sent a letter to the Justice Department to ask why did not mention the FBI's use of unmanned aerial vehicles (Wednesday) Attorney General Eric Holder.
In Wednesday's hearing, California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein said she was concerned drones to monitor privacy issues.
, "Feinstein said:" The greatest threat to Americans' privacy is the use of unmanned aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles, and today is its very few regulations.
Muller reiterated UAV rare. "It is very narrowly focused on specific cases and specific needs," he said.
Muller is due to retire when his term expires in September.
 



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