Geoff Manaugh:

It seems only a matter of time before armed police drones are a reality in the United States.

WSVN:

The Miami-Dade Police Department recently finalized a deal to buy a drone.

W.J. Hennigan:

The Federal Aviation Administration plans to propose new rules for the use of small drones in January, a first step toward clearing the way for police departments, farmers and others to employ the technology.

David Remnick:

Ten years after the attacks, we are still faced with questions about ourselves -- questions about the balance of liberty and security, about the urge to make common cause with liberation movements abroad, and about the countervailing limits. Only absolutists answer these questions absolutely.

David K. Shipler:

If we cannot mobilize sufficient concern about what we cannot see, then the invisible surveillance will continue undermining the Fourth Amendment without the resistance required to preserve our rights.

Philip Hensher:

I wish there was some less feeble response to this constant, exhausting, draining surveillance we live under.

Benjamin Wittes:

The absence of liberty will tend to guarantee an absence of security, and conversely, one cannot talk meaningfully about an individual's having liberty in the absence of certain basic conditions of security. While either in excess can threaten the other, neither can meaningfully exist without the other.