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As we have seen, however, the use of satellite images during the “national security events” such as last summer’s political conventions in Denver and St. Paul may FBI and local law enforcement agencies have contributed their preventive attacks on protest organizers and subsequent squelching of dissent. One wonders whether this is what DGI, when they say that the company “a work in national interest, promote public safety and national security through innovative research, analysis and applied technology”.
are real questions asked, these spies in the sky surveillance systems applicable data protection regulations have to comply with and not against the Posse Comitatus Act?

The 1878 law prohibits the military, a role in domestic law enforcement authorities. Since the 1990s, however, Posse Comitatus significantly eroded by both Democratic and Republican administrations, particularly in the areas of “drug”, “border security” and “Continuity of Government “planning of U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM).

Within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) is the lead agency charged with securing our nation’s borders.

United States Border Patrol ( USBP) is charged with detecting and preventing the entry of terrorists, weapons of mass destruction, and unauthorized aliens into the country, and eliminate drug smugglers and other criminals.

USBP is using advanced technology, expand its agents the ability to patrol the border. include the technologies used, but are not limited to, sensors, light towers, portable night vision equipment, remote video surveillance systems, directional listeningdevices, various database systems and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s). These so-called “force multipliers” allow the USBP to fewer agents in a given area to send, and also the ability to detect and combat intrusions and are increasingly becoming a part of the day-to-day of the USBP’s. It are two different types of UAV’s: drones and remotely piloted vehicles (RPV). Both drones are are unmanned and RPVs, but drones programmed for autonomous flight. RPVs flown actively distance – from a ground control operator. UAV’s are Vehicle as powered aerial that is neither a human operator is defined, uses aerodynamic forces provide lift, can fly autonomously or remotely piloted will can unnecessary usable or not, and can carry lethal or nonlethal payloads. UAV’s have played a key role in recent conflicts.

Historically, UAV’s used in various military settings outside of U.S. borders.
UAV’s are provided reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition, search and rescue, and battle damage assessments have. In the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq UAV’s were used for monitoring purposes, and to attack the enemies. The Predator UAV, for example, was equipped with anti-tank weapons to Taliban and Al Qaeda members to attack.
UAV’s are used in the home environment. The NASA-sponsored Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (Erastus) program produces civilian UAV’s on air pollution and to measure to monitor ozone levels. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in developing Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and part video instruction on the use of UAV’s for the detection and identification of toxic substances. Finally, the Department of Energy recently announced that they test UAV’s. you can also be equipped with sensors, radiation, to detect possible nuclear boom, suite case nuke, dirty boom and reactor accidents. Thousands of National Guard troops are to be protected along with the U.S. Border Patrol of the U.S. border and are flying unmanned aircraft system (UAS ) are used, from bases in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
/> As reported earlier this year in the Laguna Journal that a special U.S. Military Task Force was created to our to protect southern border with Mexico. The members of this Task Force are preparing to secure the border by reaction with specially trained fast response U.S. Army task force military units. These forces are already connected to the heart of power in El Paso and southern New Mexico with a far reaching responsibility from East Texas, Southern California focus.

USAF General Victor E. Renuart Jr.
be staged and immediately available as emergency “on call” units for use against terrorist threats to the national border and local disasters, said General Victor E. Renuart Jr., commander of the United States Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Commander.
The Ft. Bliss 1st Armored Division soldiers, and a new missile defense unit, are being created at Fort Bliss. America’s first air defense and believed by Jane’s Intel Web Report available to the owners of the sky, fly wherever they are. The F-22 Raptor, which are the Holloman Air Force Base Station, will be available to defend homeland security, Renuart said.
; Renuart, the Joint Task Force-North, which went under his command, declined to discuss details of threats discovered along the border with Mexico, but he said many agencies have made, including JTF-North, “there is a very difficult border for someone to take advantage. “That would explain why the recent reports of the U.S. military have been seen at the border.
As the Journal reported, given the Federal Government that the United States-Mexican border region has seen an alarming increase in the level of criminal cartel activity, including drug and human smuggling, which has placed significant additional burdens on Federal, State and local law enforcement authorities.
been, dozens of U.S. citizens kidnapped, held hostage and killed by their captors in Mexico and in many cases unresolved. In addition, further new cases of disappearances and abductions for ransom are reported.
“It is for us to believe that any prudent these established trafficking routes, whether it is trafficking or drugs or weapons or money, each of these could be used, and we want our eyes and keep your ears to all these, to ensure that they are not used in this context, “said Renuart.
Both the F-22 and the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, missile – designed to destroy short-and medium-range ballistic missile missiles, as they returned to the Earth’s atmosphere – are the latest additions to the nation’s arsenal. A THAAD unit is created at Fort Bliss.
“Our ensure job at NORTHCOM is that if there is a seam or a gap that we think could fill as we are, with few from the skill of the Defence Ministry said he. “What has forced us to do that is to think, “How do you solve that time / distance problem, even on a short-term event. And so I have access to capabilities now that I am not one or two years old that I can move very quickly to this need. < / p>
The MQ-9 Reaper will employ robust sensors to automatically find, fix, track and target critical emerging time-critical targets to fill. In the MQ-9 SAR was with the A / Therapy, instead of TESAR replaced with more advanced high-resolution radar imaging system. The Ground Control Segment of the Predator B is common with all previous Predator systems. The U.S. government is developing the ability to operate multiple aircraft from a ground station, in fact, the multiplication of the total combat power on the battlefield.
Sources:
Tom Burghardt < br /> U.S. Army Joint Task Force-North
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP ()