The author fills in a lot of details on yet another domestic spying porgram revealed in August by the Wall Street Journal. Then on October 1, Robert Block blogged at the WSJ (see link) that "Homeland Security officials say they are delaying a program to expand domestic satellite surveillance while they answer lawmakers’ questions regarding the program’s impact on civil liberties and privacy." Even the Republicans are complaining that the White House and DHS are again keeping them in the dar. The author, a national security reporter for decades, has a book coming out in 2008 from Simon & Schuster: Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Outsourced Intelligence. You can find his blog here: http://timshorrock.com/. I'm working on ... More »

why is it we only see stories like this from groups like CorpWatch, instead of mainstream media. oh, never mind.

My only hesitation in giving this detailed and very informative article complete approval is uncertainty about whether the "official" point of view is fully represented. I admit to skimming for civil liberties issues, so I may have missed the relevant quotations.