RE: [TSCM-L] {1922} [Fwd: Air rights] from TSCM/SO Group on 2007-09-04 (file.mbox)

From: TSCM/SO Group <Mit..._at_tscmusa.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:49:09 -0500

From: TSCM-..._at_googlegroups.com [mailto:TSCM-..._at_googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of kondrak
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 2:54 AM
To: TSCM-..._at_googlegroups.com
Subject: [TSCM-L] {1922} [Fwd: Air rights]

http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/editorials/story/676165.html

Air rights

In the latest government surveillance twist, spy satellites will be used for
domestic law enforcement. Is this still America?

Most Americans have accepted the Bush administration's view that after 9/11
it's a new and more restrictive world out there. Additional security
procedures at airports, less privacy for phone calls -- we go along with all
sorts of measures aimed at thwarting another terror attack.
Is the sky the limit?
A new program ordered up by Michael McConnell, director of National
Intelligence, will give police and others access to some information from
the spy satellites that pass above the U.S. along their paths over the
globe. The images and data will be employed initially for border security
and emergency preparedness; law enforcement uses ("covering both criminal
and civil law," according to The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story)
are to follow. These spy satellites are able to "see" through cloud cover
and even obtain data from inside buildings and bunkers.
They can't, we're assured, tell whether that gent in the street needs a
haircut. Not yet, anyway.
Up to now, with a few exceptions for scientific purposes, spy satellites
have been used for spying on bad actors abroad. Now they'll focus on us too.
It's hard to swallow, if you think freedom means more than national
independence. But it fits a pattern that's not easy to break.
Keeping close tabs
Americans' expectations of personal privacy have been pushed and prodded
plenty in recent years, until we hardly know what rights we have. We're
videotaped on the streets, radar-timed on the roads, monitored in our calls
to companies, told to wear security badges and asked for a phone number even
when we pay cash. We're followed by "cookies" in our wanderings around the
Web, and when we e-mail or call someone abroad, our words may be intercepted
by the government and sorted through by a supercomputer for a revealing
word.
Not to mention the trade-offs we make oh-so voluntarily as we trade privacy
for convenience -- in the supermarket checkout lane (store cards track
personal purchases); in a turnpike's electronic transponder lane (E-ZPass
records are being used in divorce cases); and when we sign up for
car-tracking services such as OnStar that know if we made the right turn
back there.
Now the Feds and local law enforcement will also be looking in on America
from low-Earth orbit. As for civil libertarians' concerns, Homeland Security
says it will have its lawyers review law enforcement agencies' requests for
satellite data before granting them. Does that include review by a court
too? The stories are silent.
And even with a nod to civil liberties, the bottom line is that police are
winning access to satellites run by the defense and intelligence
establishments, satellites intended for quite different purposes than
domestic law enforcement ("criminal and civil").
When the eyes have it
At times in our past we've allowed the authorities to curtail liberty at
home. It's always been justified on the basis of national security, and
always will be. Looking back -- at the Alien and Sedition Acts of the early
1800s and the internments of World War II, for example -- these have not
been proud moments. Americans, however, have always pulled back from the
brink, back toward liberty.
Now the matter of the spy satellites offers another chance. This program
blurs too many civilian-military lines, and sets precedents for ever more
acute technological intrusions. Implicitly, it gives officials sweeping new
powers (think of life under the satellite "eyes" of some future president
you don't think much of). It unbalances the equation between security and
liberty. It goes too far.
Are we still Americans that the men who drafted and ratified the Bill of
Rights would recognize? Pushed, prodded and spied on from space, we have to
wonder.

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Most Americans have accepted the Bush administration's view that after 9/11
it's a new and more restrictive world out there. Additional security proced=
ures
at airports, less privacy for phone calls -- we go along with all sorts of
measures aimed at thwarting another terror attack. <o:p></o:p></font=
>

Is
the sky the limit?<o:p></o:p>

A
new program ordered up by Michael McConnell, director of National Intellige=
nce,
will give police and others access to some information from the spy satelli=
tes
that pass above the <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">=
U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
along their paths over the globe. The images and data will be employed
initially for border security and emergency preparedness; law enforcement u=
ses
("covering both criminal and civil law," according to The Wall St=
reet
Journal, which broke the story) are to follow. These spy satellites are abl=
e to
"see" through cloud cover and even obtain data from inside buildi=
ngs
and bunkers.<o:p></o:p>

They
can't, we're assured, tell whether that gent in the street needs a haircut.=
Not
yet, anyway.<o:p></o:p>

Up
to now, with a few exceptions for scientific purposes, spy satellites have =
been
used for spying on bad actors abroad. Now they'll focus on us too.<o:p></o:=
p>

It's
hard to swallow, if you think freedom means more than national independence=
.
But it fits a pattern that's not easy to break.<o:p></o:p></p=
>

Keeping close tabs<o:p></o:p></p=
>

Americans'
expectations of personal privacy have been pushed and prodded plenty in rec=
ent
years, until we hardly know what rights we have. We're videotaped on the
streets, radar-timed on the roads, monitored in our calls to companies, tol=
d to
wear security badges and asked for a phone number even when we pay cash. We=
're
followed by "cookies" in our wanderings around the Web, and when =
we
e-mail or call someone abroad, our words may be intercepted by the governme=
nt
and sorted through by a supercomputer for a revealing word.<o:p></o:p></spa=
n>

Not
to mention the trade-offs we make oh-so voluntarily as we trade privacy for
convenience -- in the supermarket checkout lane (store cards track personal
purchases); in a turnpike's electronic transponder lane (E-ZPass records ar=
e
being used in divorce cases); and when we sign up for car-tracking services
such as OnStar that know if we made the right turn back there.<o:p></o:p></=
span>

Now
the Feds and local law enforcement will also be looking in on <st1:country-=
region
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>=
from
low-Earth orbit. As for civil libertarians' concerns, Homeland Security say=
s it
will have its lawyers review law enforcement agencies' requests for satelli=
te
data before granting them. Does that include review by a court too? The sto=
ries
are silent.<o:p></o:p>

And
even with a nod to civil liberties, the bottom line is that police are winn=
ing
access to satellites run by the defense and intelligence establishments,
satellites intended for quite different purposes than domestic law enforcem=
ent
("criminal and civil").<o:p></o:p>

When the eyes have it<o:p></o:p>=


At
times in our past we've allowed the authorities to curtail liberty at home.
It's always been justified on the basis of national security, and always wi=
ll
be. Looking back -- at the Alien and Sedition Acts of the early 1800s and t=
he
internments of World War II, for example -- these have not been proud momen=
ts.
Americans, however, have always pulled back from the brink, back toward
liberty.<o:p></o:p>

Now
the matter of the spy satellites offers another chance. This program blurs =
too
many civilian-military lines, and sets precedents for ever more acute
technological intrusions. Implicitly, it gives officials sweeping new power=
s
(think of life under the satellite "eyes" of some future presiden=
t
you don't think much of). It unbalances the equation between security and
liberty. It goes too far.<o:p></o:p>

Are
we still Americans that the men who drafted and ratified the Bill of Rights
would recognize? Pushed, prodded and spied on from space, we have to wonder=
. <o:p></o:p>

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