[Osx-nutters] Domestic Use of Spy Satellites To Widen - washingtonpost.com

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Domestic Use of Spy Satellites To Widen
Law Enforcement Getting New Access To Secret Imagery
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 16, 2007; A01

The Bush administration has approved a plan to expand domestic access  
to some of the most powerful tools of 21st-century spycraft, giving  
law enforcement officials and others the ability to view data  
obtained from satellite and aircraft sensors that can see through  
cloud cover and even penetrate buildings and underground bunkers.

A program approved by the Office of the Director of National  
Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security will allow  
broader domestic use of secret overhead imagery beginning as early as  
this fall, with the expectation that state and local law enforcement  
officials will eventually be able to tap into technology once largely  
restricted to foreign surveillance.