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Where the U.S. wanted to talk about Afghanistan, [Putin] wanted to talk about Chechnya and have the U.S. turn a blind eye to the human-rights abuses there.

April 19, 2013, Fiona Hill, USA Today

Chechnya has a very brutal history. You can just imagine two young Chechen boys growing up [in that violence] and then being dropped in the United States…And here they are in their 20s, a classic time for people to search for identity.

April 19, 2013, Fiona Hill, Christian Science Monitor

Obviously when you have an unmanned aircraft, there is no risk of a pilot being shot down and killed or captured in hostile territory, so these unmanned aircraft make it possible to conduct operations in places where you wouldn't want to put a human pilot at risk.

December 4, 2012, John Villasenor, Globe and Mail

Drones are part of this inexorable growth in technologies that are logging almost anything that we do. It's a sobering time for those of us who came of age in a world where we could move about without necessarily having someone perform surveillance on us.

June 20, 2012, John Villasenor, Willamette Week