Air Force Tells Reporters: You’re Not Welcome at Our Drone Base Anymore By Dawn Lim and Noah Shachtman Email Author November 29, 2011 | 6:30 am |
When the Air Force activated its first unmanned aircraft wing in 2007, the military invited journalists out to Creech Air Force Base in Nevada to come take a look at the robotic future taking off.
Today, that kind of openness would be unthinkable. The Air Force began to limit press access to Creech in 2009. In the last six months, they’ve closed it off almost entirely, turning down every American media request to visit the drone pilots. The only visit approved during that period was from a British outlet, involving Creech’s UK drone squadron, Air Force officials tell Danger Room...............>>>>.................>>>>.................http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/press-kept-out-of-drone-base/all/1
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