Just when you thought things couldn't POSSIBLY get any worse, the evil geniuses of the GOP cook up another harebrained scheme that would be laughable if it weren't abso-frigging-lutely real, didn't likely involve tens of billions of dollars of our tax dollars, and involve sending armed satellites into space--which will probably ignite an arms race in space.
WASHINGTON - 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.
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Lawmaker: Spy Project Threatens Security
In an unusual rebuke, Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, the senior Democrat on the 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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The rare criticisms of a highly secretive project in such a public forum intrigued outside intelligence experts, who said the program was almost certainly a spy satellite system, perhaps with technology to destroy potential attackers.
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Sending even defensive satellite weapons into orbit could start an arms race in space, warned John Pike, a defense analyst with GlobalSecurity.org, who has studied anti-satellite weapons for more than three decades. Pike said other countries would inevitably demand proof that any weapons were only defensive.
"Star Wars" is here. Reagan must be looking up or down (depending on where he is) and smiling. Meanwhile, we all know that Donald Rumsfeld is definitely rubbing his hands together in evil glee.
I'm beginning to agree with the evangelicals on one thing--the end of the world seems nearer every day.