Screeners spend hours looking for anything suspicious to pass to crafts’ missile controllers,yet one in 10 are employed not by the Pentagon but by private firms Sitting in his curtained cubicle at Hurlburt Field airbase in Florida, an image analyst was watching footage transmitted from a battlefield drone. whether he thought the images showed someone holding a weapon or doing anything suspicious, and he had to type it in to a chat channel seen by the pilots controlling the drone’s missiles.
Once an observation had been fed in to the chat,he later explained, it was hard to revise it – it influenced the mindset of those with their hands on the triggers.
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Source: theguardian.com