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You're On Candid Camera - The Bush administration now wants to watch you from the sky.
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jun 26, 2008 04:02pm |
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| Category | General |
| Media | Magazine - Newsweek |
| News Date | Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:20:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A Bush administration program to expand domestic use of Pentagon spy satellites has aroused new concerns in Congress about possible civil-liberties abuses.
On Tuesday, the House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment denying money for the new domestic intelligence operation—cryptically named the "National Applications Office"—until the Homeland Security secretary certifies that any programs undertaken by the center will "comply with all existing laws, including all applicable privacy and civil liberties standards."
Harman, who was the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee when Republicans controlled Congress earlier in Bush's tenure, said she still felt burned by the president's secret expansion of domestic electronic spying after 9/11. At the time, she and other intel committee leaders were assured that the increased intelligence activity was legal, only to learn later that the basis for the new surveillance was a set of opinions by administration lawyers that are now widely considered to be legally questionable. |
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