Sunday, December 12, 2004
Spy Satellite costing us Billions of dollars only works on clear days
Seems to reason if this is true then wouldn't you move your terrorist activitys to Seattle?
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Seems to reason if this is true then wouldn't you move your terrorist activitys to Seattle?
A highly classified intelligence program that the Senate Intelligence Committee has tried unsuccessfully to kill is a new $9.5 billion spy satellite system that could take photographs only in daylight hours and in clear weather, current and former government officials say.
The cost of the system, now the single biggest item in the intelligence budget, and doubts about its usefulness have spurred a secret Congressional battle. The fight over the future of a system whose existence has not yet been officially disclosed first came to light this week.
In public remarks, senators opposed to the program have described it only as an enormously expensive classified intelligence acquisition program without specifically describing it as a satellite system.
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