Stuff We Can All Agree On, Mr. President

The federal government can shove their drones up their arses.

The Air Force, like the rest of the military and the CIA, isn’t supposed to conduct “nonconsensual surveillance” on Americans domestically, according to an Apr. 23 instruction from the flying service. But should the drones taking off over American soil accidentally keep their cameras rolling and their sensors engaged, well … that’s a different story.

“Collected imagery may incidentally include US persons or private property without consent,” reads the instruction (.pdf), unearthed by the secrecy scholar Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists. That kind of “incidental” spying won’t be immediately purged, however. The Air Force has “a period not to exceed 90 days” to get rid of it — while it determines “whether that information may be collected under the provisions” of a Pentagon directive that authorizes limited domestic spying.

I wasn’t aware of the Pentagon superceding the Constitution, much less the President of the United States.

Seems to me someone should say and do something about this. You know part of the “what part of ‘NO’ don’t you understand?”, campaign.

HT Sheppard Smith, Andrew Napolitano – JSYK