10 September, 2007

just trust them?

Beginning in October 2007 the Department of Homeland Security will open a new office called the National Applications Office (NAO) charged with civil/domestic intelligence gathering.

This new division of Homeland Security was conceived entirely by the Executive Branch, with no Congressional input, and will serve as a clearinghouse for requests to access the data provided by military spy satellites, with a resolution of inches, to view the territorial United States.

Some form of "just trust us", was the operative phrase. How, exactly, has this worked, so far? We now know that governmental spies have violated constitutional safeguards in the recent past.

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