Analyst's note:  Perhaps it is time to take back OUR government?   Since the documents shared by the FBI with Congress provide virtually no detail on where the FBI has operated drones in U.S. airspace, for what purpose or how long the missions lasted .... America demands to know more.  See FBI has received aviation clearance for at least four domestic drone operations

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As President Obama prepares to nominate a new FBI director, the bureau is coming under rising pressure from lawmakers to explain the limits of its recently disclosed drone fleet.

Civil liberties-minded senators on both sides of the aisle have fired off sharply worded letters and statements in recent days criticizing the FBI for deploying surveillance drones without clear guidance on how to protect privacy rights.

[....] Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was the latest to scrutinize the bureau, sending a letter on Thursday to outgoing Director Robert Mueller asking a string of questions about his agency's drone use. 

"I am disturbed by the revelation that the FBI has unilaterally decided to begin using drone surveillance technology without a governance policy, and thus without the requisite assurances that the constitutional rights of Americans are being protected," Paul wrote.  [....]