By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration urged Congress on Wednesday to give it new powers to disable or destroy threatening drones, according to testimony viewed by Reuters.
David Glawe, undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Hayley Chang, DHS' deputy general counsel, told the Senate committee that oversees the department that it needs new authority.
"Terrorist groups overseas use drones to conduct attacks on the battlefield and continue to plot to use them in terrorist attacks elsewhere. This is a very serious, looming threat that we are currently unprepared to confront," the officials' written testimony said.
A bipartisan group of senators including Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, a Republican, and the committee's top Democrat, Claire McCaskill, last month introduced legislation to give DHS and the Justice Department authority to "to protect buildings and assets when there is an unacceptable security risk to public safety posed by an unmanned aircraft." The American Civil Liberties Union said in a letter to the committee
that it opposes the bill, which "amounts to an enormous unchecked grant
of authority to the government to forcefully remove drones form the sky
in nebulous security circumstances."...MORE
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Wednesday, June 06, 2018
U.S. officials warn Congress on risks of drones, seek new powers
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