Hugh Pickens writes "The national Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, part of the canton of Defense, is using satellites to track the activities of drug cartels operating costs along the US-Mexican border. The agency is supplying photos to pinpoint Mexican narcotics management study and anticipate smuggling attempts into the United States. During a palaver on border armament held in Phoenix last week, Scott Zikmanis said his agency already has supplied some data to the El Paso third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 Center, a federal clearinghouse for investigating drug cartels. Any border-security surveillance will be done over Mexico, not the US says Zikmanis because a federal law, the Posse Comitatus Act, strictly limits US soldierly operational research on red white and blue soil unless such operational research are authorized by Congress. Civil rights attorneys quiz the use of adherent electronic components in law enforcement. 'We are in the midst of a really dangerous time in terms of technology,' said Chris Calabrese, an front with the star-spangled banner Civil Liberties Union. 'The idea that such a puissant tool might be turned on US amateur band is really troubling.'"

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