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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (365403)	4/14/2008 10:17:32 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 436258

yeah, all my gin stories have really bad endings. -g-

To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (365403)	4/15/2008 7:07:32 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 436258

I missed it; maybe you did too. Late Friday night----too late for the evening news----the government announced they were going to use spy satellites, plus all that OTHER top-secret stuff they use to spy internationally, to spy DOMESTICALLY. ///////////// National Applications Office From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search The National Applications Office will begin October 1st to gather civil intelligence. The office is part of the United States Department of Homeland Security. It will have access to military satellites to observe the United States. It has been described as a clearinghouse for requests by law enforcement, border security, and other domestic homeland security agencies to access feeds from spy satellites that have collected data for mainly scientific and military uses in the past. Access to spy satellite surveillance tools would allow Homeland Security and law enforcement officials to see real-time, high-quality images. This would potentially allow them to identify gang safehouses, border smuggler staging areas, or even hideouts of would-be terrorists. The spy surveillance satellites are considered by military experts to be far more powerful than those currently available to civilian officials. For example, they can take color photos, see through cloud cover and forest canopies, and use different parts of the light spectrum to locate traces left by chemical weapons. However, the full capabilities of these systems are among the most carefully held governmental secrets. As of October 2nd, 2007 the United States congress has filed an injunction against the NAO, that orders it not to begin operations. This is due largely to questions about civil liberty issues. "Life is a comedy to those who think-----but a tragedy to those who feel."