Police State, Inc.

What I fail to understand is why the idiot and his henchmen keep piling on with this spying.

Do they believe the GOP will win the presidency? Do they want a Democrat to have such ridiculous power?

Staying with what they had in place makes some (little) sense, but to keep adding to it at this point is just plain stupid.

For U.S. citizens, however, the combination of NGA imagery and NSA signals intelligence in a domestic situation could threaten important constitutional safeguards against unwarranted searches and seizures. Kate Martin, the director of the Center for National Security Studies, a nonprofit advocacy organization, has likened the NAO plan to “Big Brother in the Sky.” The Bush administration, she told the Washington Post, is “laying the bricks one at a time for a police state.”

Via No Quarter.