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Look Up Washington! Those Are Hellfires!
Lawsuit demands details of D.C. surveillance plan to have drones direct missiles
WND
Remember privacy? When one could drive to work, go shopping or visit friends without being added to a digital database?
Now there are license plate scanners and traffic photo cameras to keep track of you. Then there are the NSA monitors on your telephone calls and email activity. Ranks of officers also are on duty, and those efforts don’t even touch what commercial interests do to watch where you go and what you look at in the mall.
Now, the Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of the Army over a program that will be “deployed over Washington, D.C., during the next three years.”
Employing two 250-foot blimps.
The organization explains that one blimp will conduct aerial and ground surveillance over a a 340-mile range, and the other “has targeting capability including HELLFIRE missiles.”
The legal action follows the organization’s request last fall for information from the Army about “records pertaining to the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System.”
The complaint explains the Army is planning to deploy the program, known as JLENS, in Washington. It includes “two tethered, 74-meter helium-filled aerostats connected to mobile mooring stations and a communications and processing group.”
“The aerostats fly as high as 10,000 feet above sea level and can remain aloft and operational for up to 30 days. One aerostat carries a surveillance radar with 360-degree surveillance capability; the other aerostat carries a fire controlled radar.”
The program is designed to allow “commanders to develop and analyze patterns of life over time.”
Reposted with permission
The congress folks that just started the special Benghazi commission should be careful.
I read Trey Gowedy had already been threatened and the Capitol police were investigating the threats.
Hopefully, this is just more propaganda but unfortunately, lately there’s so much dis/mis information going around that truth is stranger than fiction.