Rising concerns about unexplained drone sightings in New Jersey and New York are casting a spotlight on a long-running debate among US lawmakers over expanding agencies’ ability to take down threatening devices.
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday said they continue to investigate but haven’t corroborated the reported sightings of drones, which some witnesses have described as the size of small cars. Still, lawmakers, law enforcement, and members of the public are growing increasingly frustrated about potential threats and using those concerns to call for swift passage of legislation bolstering counter-drone powers.
The frenzy over the ...