the problem with that theory is the that us gov has never needed or worried about public support for the boring complicated sort of measures. we are basically sheep that happily sleep past all sort of heavy handed shit getting passed. being we don't pay an attention or care about bills or laws at the level of say dmca, patriot act or things of that nature.  we don't fallow military budget spending or how much money goes to farm subsidie. nobody noticed or cared fema funds where lowered until whoops a hurricane hit again. people are too busy looking at bs social wedge issues and real life crap like how buy food for their kids.  the gov doesn't have to do an sort of drone based trickery to get a bill passed. they would just throw it out there and pass it. zero effort needed. so clearly if (big if) there is currently some sort of wonky drone stuff going on its going to be military or private contractors for the military testing/showing off new drone shit.  highly doubt it's another country being that seems like too much of a direct action given how hard we could push back.
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