Posted on 12/08/2004 7:42:06 PM PST by Kornev
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress' new blueprint for U.S. intelligence spending includes a mysterious and expensive spy program that drew extraordinary criticism from leading Democrats, with one saying the highly classified project is a threat to national security.
In an unusual rebuke, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, complained Wednesday that the spy project was "totally unjustified and very, very wasteful and dangerous to the national security." He called the program "stunningly expensive."
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Well, heaven forbid we try and develop powerful new systems for defense.
(1) Look at the crowd that opposes this program.
(2) Think about their past track record.
Any further questions?
Rockefeller is a jerk, and would love to see this country go down. The man is dangerous.
A danger to national security indeed.
Reading the article, it looks like a defensive satellite system. The dems, of course, are against it because defensive measures look offensive to those that would attack us. Don't ask me to explain that.
yeah right - then WHY did these idiots ALL vote for this POS?
It amazes me when these wankers label a defense program (something with tangible results) as "stunningly expensive", but they shrug at multibillion dollar social programmes that do nothing but create more leeches on the public weal.
One thing we know for sure about the system, none of it is being built by companies in Rockefeller's home state.
Read the article:
A U.S. panel in 2001 described American defense and spy satellites as frighteningly vulnerable, saying technology to launch attacks in space was widely available internationally. The study, by a commission whose members included Donald H. Rumsfeld prior to his appointment as defense secretary for Bush, concluded that the United States was "an attractive candidate for a Space Pearl Harbor
CNN seems to think it is armed satellites capable of destroying other satellites (simple guns on a satellite would suffice).
However, none of our current advesaries has any significant satellite capability, although that might change with IRAN's deal with China for unspecified satellite services. If Iran is after targeting data, those satellites would be logical choices to want to take out.
However, there are other possibilities, such as lurking drone tank hunting aircraft. There are also technologies in the pipe that can remotely excite Plastic Explosives to detonate (tuned microwave pulses), Aircraft Mounted Lasers, Naval Rail Guns, Drone Tanks, etc. (Not revealing anything you can't find on the web here folks...).
So take your choice.
YEA!!!
If the Dems are screaming about it, you know it's a darn good system. Let's hear it for Bush.
Gotta love those black programs, but in this case it's blindingly obvious what we're facing here:
A giant spanking machine. President Bush is gonna keep it in his closet for those really bad countries.
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