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Hello and welcome to the LawFair podcast, I'm Benjamin Wittis and today I'm here with

a very special guest, an actual predator drone. Unfortunately, the predator in question has

had a bit too much to drink. Yes, my guest today is the famous at Drunken Predator, Twitter

phenom, essayist, and student of all things unmanned aerial vehicles. We don't normally interview

inanimate objects on the LawFair podcast, but the Drunken Predator is a most unusual robot.

For those of you who don't know him, Drunken Predator has been tweeting anonymously for

some time now. He also blogs occasionally over at Gunpowder and Lead, and he recently

wrote an essay in Foreign Policy magazine about misconceptions in the human population about

drones. Links to his work appear on LawFair in the post associated with this podcast. He

flew into Brookings' conference room recently for a chat about his drinking habits, UAVs,

and his peculiar career in public life. So tell me, sir, why do you drink?

I drink because you humans insist on blaming me for all of the perceived negative developments

in warfare and surveillance and technology that you use to accomplish your goals throughout

the world, both abroad and in theaters of war, whether declared or undeclared and here at home.

There are a lot of misconceptions that are very difficult to refute when you're busy flying

around over various war zones. He, among them, first being that I'm somehow different from any

other weapon that's ever been infected. The idea that's just because I don't have a human pilot

riding along on board with me, that now I have ushered in an era of cost-free risk-free warfare.

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