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An intelligence official could not specify whether the new domestic intelligence office would be required to obtain a warrant before conducting particularly close satellite surveillance. A spokesman for NGA said the agency would have no comment on the program. But Russ Knocke, a Homeland Security spokesman, told Newsweek that fears about the program are unfounded. "We've repeatedly met with Congress to answer questions about the NAO," he said. "As we have said, the purpose of the NAO is not to expand existing legal authorities. Rather, it will allow the government to better and more efficiently prioritize the use of scarce resources in support of major disasters, homeland security efforts and perhaps—in the future—law enforcement. We have also been clear that we would brief Congress before moving to support law enforcement. Efforts to further stall the NAO are misguided and keep us from making the best use of overhead imagery for a number of public safety and security missions."
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Posted By: fixitup @ 08/29/2008 9:11:55 AM
Comment: I sense a little psychosis creeping in
Posted By: fartmantwo @ 08/14/2008 1:54:28 PM
Comment: I believe it was Ben Franklin who said " Those who would sacrifice rights for security deserve neither". When our home got ???home invaded??? on 911 did our overseers buy better doors and windows and a better door lock? Those in power didn???t protect our borders they spied on our own people, they eliminated ???innocent until proven guilty???, they declared marshal law (still in effect by the way), they instituted soviet style torture on people being held with charge, they outlawed descent against the war and made Bush the ???Commander and God??? in the event of another terrorist attack. (see presidential directive #51 ??? 2007) How can we trust them now?
It is so sad that we let 200 years of freedom dissolve so quickly due to our own fear: I am not afraid of guys in caves. Hell, the USA vaporized two cities in Japan, a country the size of California. Did that end Japan?
Men in caves can not end this country. Men in caves can not take away the bill of rights, men in caves can not eliminate the Constitution, men in caves can not end the United States of America. WHY DO WE KEEP ACTING LIKE THEY ARE CAPABLE OF DESTROYING AMERICA? They can not?????????.
Stop playing into the fear mongering of this administration
Posted By: GWBasher @ 08/06/2008 5:46:14 PM
Comment: Now all Americans can get a taste of what life in the USSR was. It's been ongoing since year 2000.