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U.S. Lawmakers Urge Delay in Domestic Spy Satellite Plan

Mimi Hall writes on USA Today:

Members of Congress and civil liberties groups demanded Thursday that the Homeland Security Department delay a new program that will let police and counterterrorism officers use powerful spy satellites above the United States.

"Privacy and civil liberties concerns were apparently an afterthought" when the Bush administration decided to give Homeland Security the authority to run the new program, Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., said at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing.

posted by Fergie @ 9/07/2007 02:09:00 PM