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Article: Lawmakers Challenge Plan to Expand Spying; Concerns Focus on Domestic Use of Satellite Technology and How U.S. Will Protect Civil Liberties
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- The Washington Post
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- September 7, 2007
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Senior House Democrats called on the Bush administration
yesterday to delay a planned Oct. 1 expansion of the use of powerful
satellite and aircraft spy technology by local and federal law
enforcement agencies, challenging the plan's legality and charging
that the administration is failing to safeguard the privacy of
Americans.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-
Miss.) and two Democratic subcommittee chairmen jointly asked the
Department of Homeland Security to provide the legal framework for
the domestic use of classified and military spy satellites, and to