Daily Stormer
January 28, 2015
And now, your retarded story of the day.
Nah, just joking. All daily stories are retarded.
It was 42 degrees and raining lightly around 3 a.m. on Monday when an inebriated off-duty employee for a government intelligence agency decided it was a good time to fly his friend’s drone, a 2-foot-by-2-foot “quadcopter” that sells for hundreds of dollars and is popular among hobbyists.
But officials say the plan was foiled, perhaps by wind or a tree, when the employee — who has not been named by the Secret Service or charged with a crime — lost control of the drone as he operated it from an apartment just blocks from the White House.
He texted his friends, worried that the drone had gone down on the White House grounds, and then went to sleep. It was not until the next morning, when he woke and learned from friends that a drone had been found at the White House, that he contacted his employer, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. He then called the Secret Service and immediately began cooperating with an investigation into the incident.
In the process of what officials describe as nothing more than a drunken misadventure, the employee managed to highlight another vulnerability in the protective shield that the Secret Service erects around the White House complex.
The small drone, called a DJI Phantom, evaded White House radar that is calibrated to warn of much bigger threats, like an airplane or a missile. Although White House officials characterized the drone as not dangerous, it nonetheless has raised serious questions about how secure President Obama and his family are when they are home.
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Mr. Obama, who was traveling abroad, declined to comment on the drone episode. But in an interview with CNN broadcast on Tuesday morning, he said he had instructed federal agencies to examine the need for regulations on commercial drone technology.
Mr. Obama said he had told the agencies to make sure that “these things aren’t dangerous and that they’re not violating people’s privacy.” He said that commercially available drones empower people, but that the government needed to provide “some sort of framework that ensures that we get the good and minimize the bad.”
“There are incredibly useful functions that these drones can play in terms of farmers who are managing crops and conservationists who want to take stock of wildlife,” the president told the CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria. “There are a whole range of things we can do with it.”
But Mr. Obama noted that the drone that landed at the White House was the kind “you buy at RadioShack.” And he said the government had failed to keep up with the use of the flying devices by hobbyists and commercial enterprises.
“We don’t really have any kind of regulatory structure at all for it,” Mr. Obama said.
So, today in America a drunken government employee drives a high-tech flying robot you can buy on eBay and have shipped to your house overnight for $130.00 into what is supposed to be the most secure area in the world and the Negro President responds by saying “I dunno maybe we need to do a regulation or whatever roflmao.”
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