Rand Paul would've been OK with using drones to hunt Boston suspect "If there is a killer on the loose in a neighborhood, I’m not against drones being used to search them," he said

Sen. Rand Paul, recently hailed by Republicans and Democrats alike for his filibuster against the Obama Administration's drone policy, said he would have been fine with using drones to track down Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston bombing suspect who was the target of a extended manhunt by law enforcement.

"If there is a killer on the loose in a neighborhood, I’m not against drones being used to search them," he said on the Fox Business Channel.

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Paul said that the difference in this case was that there was an "imminent threat."

His argument, as quoted by The Hill: