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- Afternoon of June 22, 2009 • The US Department of Homeland Security announced yesterday it’s dropping the planned National Applications Office after asking state and local law enforcement how useful they’d find such imagery, and hearing back not really.The Wall Street Journal reports that Los Angeles police chief William Bratton, writing on behalf of the 64-member Major Cities Chiefs Association, told DHS head Janet Napolitano, “Were the program to go forward, the police chiefs would be concerned about privacy protections and whether using military satellites for domestic purposes would violate the Posse Comitatus law, which bars the use of the military for law enforcement in the US.The LA Times spoke with Rep. Jane Harman (D – Cal.), chair of the House Homeland Security Committee’s intelligence and terrorism risk assessment subcommittee, who cited grave privacy concerns with the proposed surveillance.
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