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January 5, 2005
Anatomy of a Spy Satellite
Topics: General ScienceYahoo News Jan 3 via Quibbles N Bits..
For military and intelligence communities, outer space has become a highground, hide-and-seek arena -- a kind of "now you see me, now you don't" espionage playing field.
Over the decades, spying from space has always earned super-secret status. They are the black projects, fulfilling dark tasks and often bankrolled by blank check.
However last month, several U.S. senators openly blew the whistle on a mystery spy satellite program, critical of its high cost while calling to question its utility in today's post-9/11 world.
One lawmaker, Jay D. Rockefeller (D-WV), the vice chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, openly criticized the program on the floor of the U.S. Senate. He said the program "is totally unjustified and very wasteful and dangerous to national security," adding that he has voted to terminate the program for two years, with no success.
There is now
a delicate dance underway between issues of national security and open
public scrutiny about taxpayer dollars being spent wisely or
squandered. Meanwhile, the swirl of secrecy seems to be revolving
around a top secret "stealthy" satellite project, codenamed MISTY.
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Posted by Hyscience at January 5, 2005 11:11 PM
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