White House drone operator worked for U.S. intelligence agency

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agencya little-known but enormous agency with a broad mission that ranges from supporting U.S. combat efforts to aiding security planning for the Olympicssaid Tuesday that one of its off-duty staff members had “self-reported the incident.”

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“You know that there are companies like Amazon that are talking about using small drones to deliver packages. … 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,” Obama said. “But we don’t really have any kind of regulatory structure at all for it.”

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