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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bal-ed.spy19aug19,0,3037967.story
A snip of the column:
"Spy satellites have served benign civilian purposes for decades, including map-making, conducting environmental studies and assessing damage after natural disasters. The administration has decided to broadly expand satellite use, however, to include not only security functions but to assist federal, state, local and tribal authorities in the enforcement of criminal and civil laws.
"Effectively, there is no limit on the use of this high-tech equipment, which includes visual and non-visual capabilities that can sense electromagnetic activity, radioactivity and chemical traces.
"According to the Department of Homeland Security, Congress has signed off on this expanded use of spy satellites and provided funding for it to begin this fall. An aide to the Senate Intelligence Committee confirmed the committee was aware of the program and was monitoring it. Yet, there appears to have been no plan to make it public until The Wall Street Journal broke the story last week."
Still another thing to write our Congress Critters about. Mine, unfortunately, thinks Bush walks on water, and refuses to do the least little thing to slow him down.
A snip of the column:
"Spy satellites have served benign civilian purposes for decades, including map-making, conducting environmental studies and assessing damage after natural disasters. The administration has decided to broadly expand satellite use, however, to include not only security functions but to assist federal, state, local and tribal authorities in the enforcement of criminal and civil laws.
"Effectively, there is no limit on the use of this high-tech equipment, which includes visual and non-visual capabilities that can sense electromagnetic activity, radioactivity and chemical traces.
"According to the Department of Homeland Security, Congress has signed off on this expanded use of spy satellites and provided funding for it to begin this fall. An aide to the Senate Intelligence Committee confirmed the committee was aware of the program and was monitoring it. Yet, there appears to have been no plan to make it public until The Wall Street Journal broke the story last week."
Still another thing to write our Congress Critters about. Mine, unfortunately, thinks Bush walks on water, and refuses to do the least little thing to slow him down.
