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Training Satellites on the United States

Homeland Security plans to share spy satellite data with domestic agencies

By Lindsay Beyerstein

On August 15, the Wall Street Journal broke the news that America’s senior intelligence authorities were preparing to vastly expand access to classified satellite reconnaissance and other remote sensing data. Initially, the National Applications Office (NAO), a newly created office within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), will confine itself to homeland security and traditional civil applications. Officials will be… return to article

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    The Satellites being used to Spy on us, are just like the UFO’S of the late 50’s, and early 60’s, to experiment their use of spying on other countries, but now ,being used by the neo’s in Washington to Spy on us.

    United States Posted by cuja72 on Sep 26, 2007 at 3:11 AM
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