{"id":1986,"date":"2008-04-13T13:54:08","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T13:51:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T13:51:43","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1986","title":{"rendered":"U.S. spy satellites soon to start surveilling U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. spy satellites are soon to start surveilling U.S., according to a story yesterday in the Washington Post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/04\/11\/AR2008041103655.html\">Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in U.S. \/ Congressional Critics Want More Assurances of Legality<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation&#8217;s most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon, rebuffing challenges by House Democrats over the idea&#8217;s legal authority. <\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said his department will activate his department&#8217;s new domestic satellite surveillance office in stages, starting as soon as possible with traditional scientific and homeland security activities &#8212; such as tracking hurricane damage, monitoring climate change and creating terrain maps. <\/p>\n<p>Sophisticated overhead sensor data will be used for law enforcement once privacy and civil rights concerns are resolved, he said. The department has previously said the program will not intercept communications. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole article, if you can, then rent 1998&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120660\/\">&#8220;Enemy of the State&#8221;<\/a> and watch it. As Dean&#8217;s [Will Smith] character&#8217;s wife put it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Carla Dean: Oh, well there goes the Fourth Amendment&#8230; what&#8217;s left of it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that movie came out a decade ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1986\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}