Now, U.S. National Security Espionage
By Michael Webster: journalist research. November 10, 2008 at 9:00 AM PDT
Using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and space intelligence surveillance technology U.S. government's domestic is now looking for U.S. citizens under the pretext of disaster management and control of the border Mexico. The Reaper / unmanned Predator B robot killing machines are currently in service with the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy and Royal Air Force. In addition to the non-military users of the Predator B include: NASA and the national security of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.
The Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) Based in the area of espionage national program run by the National Agency Applications Office (NAO) is now fully operational.
Indeed, during Hurricane Ike, U.S. Customs and Border Protection for the first time he flew the Predator B unmanned aerial vehicle in the "support efforts Relief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has launched publication of the technical report.
Tom Burghardt wrote a recent article that the Predator B carries out "targeted assassinations" of "suspected terrorists" in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. The deployment of robotic killing machines in the United States for the "Disaster Management" is disturbing to say the least and a harbinger of things to come.
Despite objections by Congress and civil liberties groups DHS, in close collaboration with the ultra-creepy National Reconnaissance Office, the organization that develops and maintains the U.S. fleet military satellites for espionage, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which analyzes imagery and produces military mapping tools are ongoing first phase of the controversial domestic spying program.
NAO will coordinate how domestic law enforcement and relief organizations of victims and the use of satellite imagery intelligence FEMA (IMINT) generated by military spy satellites. Burghardt wrote Earlier this year, unlike commercial satellites, their military cousins are far more flexible, have greater resolution and therefore have more power to control human activity.
Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU Technology and Liberty Project, has called for a national moratorium on the use of satellites military spies until key questions have been answered. Steinhardt said, domestic use of spy satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles brother is a monster more and we must put some restrictions in place before development is something that trample the rights of Americans to privacy.
The program now provides federal, state and local "with extensive access to spy satellite imagery." Steinhardt said
As we have seen no However, the use of satellite imagery in the events of "national security", such as political conventions last summer in Denver and St. Paul could have helped the FBI and local police in raids on organizers of pre-emption of protest and repression of dissent future. One wonders if this is regard to the IMB when they write that the company "conducts work in the national interest, promote public safety and national security through research innovative analysis and applied technology.
There are real questions, do these spies in the sky surveillance systems comply with privacy laws and does not violate Posse Comitatus Act?
The law prohibits the Army in 1878 to play a role in domestic law enforcement. Since 1990, however, Posse Comitatus has been significantly eroded by the Democratic and Republican administrations, especially in the fight against drugs "," security border "and" continuity of government "planning by the U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM).
In the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border
(CBP) has primary responsibility for securing the borders of our country.
U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) is responsible for detecting and preventing the entry of terrorists, weapons of mass destruction, and unauthorized aliens in the country, and prevent drug traffickers and other criminals.
The USBP is already using the latest technology to increase the capacity of its staff to patrol the border. The technologies include, but are not limited to, sensors, lighting towers, the night vision field mobile, video surveillance systems remote listeningdevices steering systems, different databases, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). These so-called force multipliers "allow USBP deploy fewer agents in a specific area while maintaining the ability to detect intrusions and cons and are increasingly part of daily operations of USBP. There are two different types of UAVs: drones and remotely piloted vehicles (RPV). Both vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles are remotely piloted drones, but are programmed for autonomous flight. RPV actively flown remotely – by a control operator ground. Unmanned aerial vehicles are defined as powered aerial vehicle that does not carry a human operator, uses aerodynamic forces to provide lift, can fly autonomously or be piloted remotely, can be sustainable or recoverable, and can carry lethal or lethal loads. UAVs have played key roles in recent conflicts.
Historically, UAVs have been used in various military installations outside the borders of the United States.
UAVs provided reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition, search and rescue, and battle damage assessments. In the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, UAVs have been used for control purposes and enemy attack. The Predator drone, for example, was armed with anti-tank weapons to attack the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
UAVs manned have also been used in domestic environments. Sponsored by NASA's Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (Erast) the program has produced Civilian UAVs to monitor pollution and measure ozone levels. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is involved in the development of global positioning systems (GPS) and orientation of the video camera to use unmanned aircraft to locate and identify toxic substances. Finally, the Energy Department recently announced that will test unmanned aerial vehicles. They can also be equipped with radiation sensors to detect any nuclear dams, the dams after event the nuke, dirty and a reactor accident. Thousands of National Guard troops deployed along the U.S. Border Patrol to protect the U.S. border and fly system UAV (UAS), from bases in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
As indicated earlier this year in the Laguna Journal that a special force U.S. military task has been created to protect our southern border with Mexico. Members of this working group is preparing to secure the border, responding units especially rapid response training U.S. Army task force member. These forces are already in place in the center of power being concentrated in El Paso Southern New Mexico with a great responsibility to east Texas to southern California.
USAF General Victor E. Renuart Jr.
Stages and are immediately available in case of emergency "on call" units use against terrorist threats the nation's borders and disasters local, said Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr., commander of U.S. Northern Command and Commander Aerospace Defense of North America.
Ft Bliss First Armored Division soldiers and a missile defense unit of newly created at Fort Bliss. U.S. defense believes that the air and the first report of Jane Web Intel owners the sky wherever you fly. The F-22 Raptors that are stationed at Holloman Air Force Base will be available to defend the security Renuart said cover.
Renuart, who visited Joint Task Force North, which is under his command, declined to discuss details of threats uncovered along the border with Mexico, but said many agencies, including JTF-North, have made "a very difficult border for someone to enjoy. "This would explain why there have been recent reports of the U.S. military to see border.
As previously reported in the Journal, the government has recognized that federal border region between the U.S. and Mexico has seen an alarming increase in the level of criminal cartel activity, including drugs and smuggling people, which has placed significant additional burdens for federal, state and local law enforcement.
Dozens of U.S. citizens were abducted, taken hostage and killed by their captors in Mexico and many cases remain unresolved. In addition, new cases of disappearances and abductions rescue Contra continue to be reported.
"It is prudent to assume that a set these smuggling routes, either trafficking in human beings or drugs or weapons or money, one could use, and if we have eyes and ears around the world to ensure that they are not used in this sense "Said Renuart.
The two F-22 and the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, missile – designed to destroy ballistic missiles of short and medium scope to enter Earth's atmosphere – are the innovations of the nation's arsenal. A THAAD unit is being created at Fort Bliss.
"Our work in NORTHCOM is to ensure that if there is a seam or a gap there that we think about how we could fill it with some other capacity for "the MoD said." What we had to do is think: "How can you solve the problem of time or remotely, even on a short-term event. And so I have access to the capabilities now that I'm not a year or two ago that I can move very quickly to fill this need.
The MQ-9 Reaper robust sensors to automatically use find, fix, track, and objectives of the new time-sensitive problems. In the MQ-9 SAR has been replaced by a / Apy, replacing the system with the Tesar advanced radar high-resolution images. The ground control segment of the Predator B is common with all previous Predator systems. The U.S. government is developing the ability to operate multiple devices from a single ground station, made by multiplying the overall combat effectiveness in the battlefield.
Sources:
Tom Burghardt
United States Joint Task Force of the Northern Army
The Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Base Holloman Air Force
Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr., chief of U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Commander.
U.S. Soldiers on the ground.
Barry Steinhardt
MQ-9 Reaper, UAV Predator B The Border: Recon
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