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DHS Deployed Plane Above San Bernardino To Scoop Up All Phone Calls After Attack (dailymail.co.uk)
schwit1 writes: Federal investigators looking into the San Bernardino massacre deployed a spy plane overhead after the attacks in an apparent attempt to find additional suspects. The Department of Homeland Security is said to have put up the single engine craft over the California city and ordered it to make repeated circles overhead. The craft would likely have been equipped with Dirtbox technology which can scan tens of thousands of phones in one go to identify suspects. The report adds to the intrigue about whether or not there were accomplices in the San Bernardino attacks, which took place last Wednesday and were the worst terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11.
Look at the track for N404KR on that day (2015/12/02) -- it spent hours circling over the area. It's a Cessna 182T, so a smaller payload capability, but slower with more loiter time over a tighter area.
And it's registered out of a P.O. box in Virginia, along with many similar companies and aircraft.
Nothing suspicious here, move along citizen...
Does this involve white terrorists, like the one in Colorado, as well? Or is this one of those rules we apply to people whose beliefs or skin-color are outside of the norm?
It appears that it is applied when some of the suspects got away from the scene of the crime.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
The idea behind such a lockdown isn't to hamper the target's movements; it's to get everyone off the streets so the only ones left moving around are law enforcement or the "target". The whole thing could have been avoided by the FBI actually using the intel Russia had given us; but if we had done that there wouldn't have been any bombing nor the fear that followed.