The Central Intelligence Agency has co-opted the Air Force to try to reclaim the A-12 Blackbird restored by the Minnesota Air National Guard Museum near the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, reports the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. The CIA now wants to display the spy plane that the Minnesota museum rescued from a scrap heap in 1990. The museum has enlisted the aid of its Congressional delegation.
The use of a military counter-drone laser on the southwest border this week—which prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to abruptly close the airspace over El Paso, Texas—will be a “case study” on the complex web of authorities needed to employ such weapons near civilian areas and the consequences of agencies…

