Well, if they fly on the other side of the border

Drones are making their way to our borders and while it has not been determined if the operators are hostile to American values, this can bode no good.

Though it's best known for rocket launches, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is now home to another type of aircraft: military-style drones used to spy on drug smugglers trying to reach Florida from the Caribbean.

Since 2010, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has maintained a small base there as part of its effort to expand surveillance along U.S. borders - and increasingly for other purposes as well. Logs show the pilotless aircraft in Florida "supported" other law-enforcement agencies about 100 times in the past year on missions such as routine patrols and ship surveillance...

Civil-liberties groups have warned that the use of drones by border patrol agents could lead to domestic spying. And they say the drones are being used for more tasks than initially intended.

Flight logs obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy group, showed CBP drones are increasingly used to assist other agencies, from the FBI to the U.S. Forest Service. There were 30 such assists in 2010, but more than 250 last year.

According to the logs, assists by Cape Canaveral drones have jumped from at least four in 2010 to overfly the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to more than 100 in 2012.

Often, the drones were asked to inspect ships at sea for threats, according to the logs. And Eckardt noted his team often partnered with the Joint Interagency Task Force South, a coalition of agencies based in Key West that fight the drug trade.

But Eckardt said CBP drones generally were prohibited from flying overland in the state. The one exception is a flight path that cuts across Central Florida for whenever the drones need to fly from Cape Canaveral to a base in Corpus Christi, Texas.

And though the cameras remain running while over Central Florida - they are needed to navigate the pilotless craft - he said that the standard procedure was to overwrite recordings from the drones "every 30 days or so."

Yup, they overwrite those recordings every 30 days, no doubt after all the "good stuff" has been copied and passed around.