{"id":2381063,"date":"2024-12-17T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-kirby-mystery-drones-are-currently-legal-aviation-in-response-to-trump-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T15:01:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T20:01:13","slug":"john-kirby-mystery-drones-are-currently-legal-aviation-in-response-to-trump-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-kirby-mystery-drones-are-currently-legal-aviation-in-response-to-trump-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kirby: Mystery drones are currently \u2018legal\u2019 aviation in response to Trump &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-kirby-mystery-drones-are-currently-legal-aviation-in-response-to-trump-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2381063&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a recent statement, National\u2064 Security Council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-would-love-to-see-any-evidence-of-fraud-nothing-they-are-saying-is-true-dominion-voting-systems-spokesman-refutes-fraud-claims-video\/\" title=\"&quot;We Would Love to See Any Evidence of Fraud - Nothing They Are Saying Is True&quot; - Dominion Voting Systems Spokesman Refutes Fraud Claims (VIDEO)\">spokesman<\/a> John Kirby \u2064addressed concerns regarding \u200creported\u2063 drone sightings along the East Coast, \u2064describing them \u200das \u2062&#8221;lawful,\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">legal aviation activity<\/a>.&#8221; Responding to President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s claims \u2062about the \u2063government having knowledge of the\u2064 situation, \u2062Kirby maintained that the\u2063 government\u2064 has a clear understanding of the drone activities and asserted that his views align with\u2062 Trump\u2019s outlook. During his appearance \u2062on Fox News, Kirby emphasized that, \u2064based on current assessments and \u2063corroborated facts,\u2064 there is \u200cno indication that these drone sightings represent anything other than \u200clegal \u2062aviation operations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">John Kirby: Mystery drones are currently &lsquo;legal&rsquo; aviation in response to Trump<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1913058\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>National Security Council Spokesman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-kirby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">John Kirby<\/a> sought to quell concerns about the reported drone sightings along the East Coast, saying they are currently &ldquo;lawful, legal aviation activity,&rdquo; and there is currently no information indicating otherwise.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Kirby was asked about claims from President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> on the drones, in which the incoming president contended that the government &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3261630\/donald-trump-press-conference-takeaways-tiktok-drones-rfk-jr-tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">knows what is happening<\/a>.&rdquo; In response, Kirby argued the government has &ldquo;a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/willie-robertson-argues-it-became-kind-of-cool-to-support-trump-in-2024-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Willie Robertson argues it became \u2018kind of cool\u2019 to support Trump in 2024 - Washington Examiner\">good sense&#038;rdquo<\/a>; of this topic and that he is not in disagreement with Trump on this assessment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And as you saw in the joint statement last night from four different federal agencies, our assessment to date, based on the information that we&rsquo;ve seen, the people we&rsquo;ve talked to, the tips we&rsquo;ve corroborated, this is lawful, legal aviation activity,&rdquo; Kirby said on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>America&rsquo;s Newsroom<\/em>. &ldquo;Manned and unmanned, drones, civil aviation. We see nothing that leads us to a different conclusion.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2729730&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=708dd0e470ec5b63b0d97562578687a5\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kirby added that the investigation is &ldquo;ongoing&rdquo; and that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">FBI<\/a> is still looking into &ldquo;about a hundred leads.&rdquo; He also assured that an update would be provided on the drones in the event new information is provided that contradicts the current assessment of their safety and legality.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman was also pressed on why these drones could not be shot for flying over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/military\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">military<\/a> bases, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3260855\/trump-calls-mystery-drones-shot-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">a proposition Trump has called for<\/a>. However, Kirby contended that shooting down every drone, even those with &ldquo;malicious intent,&rdquo; does not conform to &ldquo;actual realities, and that the possibility of shooting down drones comes down to a case-by-case basis.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kirby also noted there could be multiple false alarms that people are raising over this story, as &ldquo;people are just looking up more&rdquo; as this is &ldquo;more of a story.&rdquo; However, he assessed that people can see these sightings because &ldquo;they&rsquo;ve got their navigation lights on&rdquo; and are not attempting to hide from the public.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Among those who have expressed concern over these reported drone sightings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/national-security\/3262720\/lindsey-graham-worried-foreign-drone-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">is Sen. Lindsey Graham<\/a> (R-SC), who said Monday night that he has &ldquo;never been more worried about an attack on home end&rdquo; than he currently is. He also questioned whether or not the Biden administration is lying over these drone sightings, as it is impossible to tell if it is telling the truth since &ldquo;they are incompetent&rdquo; in securing the nation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/border-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">citing the southern border<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During a news conference Monday, Trump addressed the drone sightings and the concerns they pose, suggesting he would avoid his resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, for the time being. He also said the military knows where &ldquo;they took off from&rdquo; but does not want to comment on the matter, arguing that &ldquo;they&rsquo;d be better off saying what it is&rdquo; rather than leaving the public in suspense.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1913058\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1913058\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kirby: Drones are &#8216;legal&#8217; aviation activity now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2381064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Kirby-drones-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[37064,46998,46984,46999,32076],"class_list":["post-2381063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-john-kirby","tag-legal-aviation","tag-mystery-drones","tag-trump-response","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Kirby-drones-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381067,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381063\/revisions\/2381067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2381064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}