The next step: Bush wants satellites for domestic spying

By GottaLaff

This video is from MSNBC’s News Live, broadcast June 28, 2008.

MSNBC’s Alex Witt talked to Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff about a new proposal by the Bush administration to use satellites for domestic surveillance.

First FISA, now this:

"First of all, there are strict laws about the act that limits the use of the U.S. military for law enforcement purposes. But the precision of these satellites, they can literally capture crystal clear images of your car as you leave the studio this afternoon. And capture them in computer databases — in the government computer databases. And it raises all sorts of concerns. To some degree, the administration is paying the price of what is for — what many in congress see as way over stepping — in the electronic surveillance era.”

Read Michael Isikoff’s Newsweek article here.

As Isikoff points out, this for our own good, because BushCo cares so much about our safety, and spying would come in handy "in case of emergency". Uh huh. I posted about Bush's little emergency directive here.

Check that out carefully. Bush calls all the shots. The president, and only the president, “coordinates” everything. Yes, everything. He didn’t call himself the Commander Guy for nothing.