The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation's most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon, rebuffing challenges by House Democrats over the idea's legal authority.
(Chertoff) statements marked a fresh determination to operate the department's new National Applications Office as part of its counterterrorism efforts. The administration in May 2007 gave DHS authority to coordinate requests for satellite imagery, radar, electronic-signal information, chemical detection and other monitoring capabilities that have been used for decades within U.S. borders for mapping and disaster response.
But Congress delayed launch of the new office last October. Critics cited its potential to expand the role of military assets in domestic law enforcement, to turn new or as-yet-undeveloped technologies against Americans without adequate public debate, and to divert the existing civilian and scientific focus of some satellite work to security uses.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Bigger Brother
WaPo: Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in U.S.
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They need more resources to keep an eye on all the call girls and hookers and their customers. How else can they bribe, blackmail and extort want they want? Terrorists ? Not a problem they have Haliburton and Blackwater too deal with them.
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I think its a money making scheme - they get footage of all of us doing 'private' personal business of any nature, and then sell the DVD. One of those guys is big on voyeurism.
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