Comments on: Mr. Charles E. Allen, Former Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis, DHS, Calls Killing Domestic Spy Program a “Mistake”

By: Mr. Doe

Mr. Doe — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:25:23 +0000

Agreed.
There’s no justification I’ve seen that leads me to believe we need to be providing state and local governments military-grade satellite intelligence. That would open a box that needs to stay closed.

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By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:14:26 +0000

While I certainly don’t support programs which monitor and observe U.S. citizens and corporations, I do think there are cases which can be made for and supported by domestic satellite imagery, to view larger infrastructure and security issues. Those cases however, don’t have to have imagery of such resolution or granularity that it exceeds what is publicly available through commercial means, or on, say, Google Earth (which is quite good in many cases, and a commercial satellite product).