Also see: Spy Satellite Shit and Rods From God
We do not need any more tyranny and looting under the cover of "protection."
"Tension may feed space power decline; US agencies have different needs, House report says" by Walter Pincus, Washington Post | October 14, 2008
WASHINGTON - Differences between the Pentagon and intelligence agencies over capabilities to be built into future US satellites have led to delayed starts in new programs and may result in a decline in US space dominance, according to a new report by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
The underlying issue, according to two members of the committee, is the traditional tension that exists between the needs of two customers: intelligence agencies, which want to gather strategic information for policy makers, and the Defense Department, which requires tactical information for war fighters.
The National Reconnaissance Office is the once-secret agency that designs, builds and operates intelligence satellites. It is part of the Defense Department and is staffed by Pentagon and CIA personnel but is funded primarily by the national intelligence budget.
Space intelligence programs mostly have been kept secret to protect their capabilities to see, hear, and gather data crucial to the nation's security.
Even if 9/11 was an inside job.
But the recent cancellation of a multibillion-dollar intelligence satellite project has led members of both House and Senate intelligence panels to voice concerns over the future of US intelligence-gathering from space. --more--"
Of course, I'm sure it's just me. The same people who lied us into war and lie about everything else in their ceaseless agenda-pushing wouldn't be lying about this -- or anything else, right? Newspapers are here to serve YOU, the reader, with the TRUTH, right, 'murka?
