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Perspective

Jun. 12, 2013

Linking drone strikes to surveillance programs

These activities are, in fact, linked. By Peter Scheer


By Peter Scheer


First came news accounts of the government's use of armed drones in the targeted killing of terrorists abroad. Then came the revelations about government surveillance programs, breathtaking in their scale, tapping into data on phone calls, emails, internet searches and more.


These activities are, in fact, linked.


The use of drones to target America's enemies represents the fruition of technological evolution in weapon a...

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