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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

US spy satellitles to be used on Americans cont.

Kiss the Posse Comitatus Act out the window. The Military along with Private Corporation will be taking over in the drivers seat.

Now being reported in The Wall Street Journal

Tracking Weapons

The spy satellites are considered by military experts to be more penetrating than civilian ones: They not only take color, as well as black-and-white photos, but can also use different parts of the light spectrum to track human activities, including, for example, traces left by chemical weapons or heat generated by people in a building.


Was it not just a while back that we had to see drawings made up from the Military of these Mobile units in Iraq with train tracks etc.

Remember, everything was moved to Syria and Iran where is all the photo shot based on the spy satellites capabilities?

That's right our attention span is about one day.

How about this one.

According to defense experts, MASINT uses radar, lasers, infrared, electromagnetic data and other technologies to see through cloud cover, forest canopies and even concrete to create images or gather data.


This one will make ya happy.

According to Pentagon officials, the government has in the past been able to supply information from spy satellites to federal law-enforcement agencies, but that was done on a case-by-case basis and only with special permission from the president.


This one will make us all feel safe.

Mr. Devine says officials who vetted requests for the scientific community also are worried about the civil-liberties implications when DHS takes over the program. "We took very seriously our mission and made sure that there was no chance of inappropriate usage of the material," Mr. Devine says. He says he hopes oversight of the new DHS program will be "rigorous," but that he doesn't know what would happen in cases of complaints about misuse


Government Whistle Blowers and Journalist your being watched.

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