Inside the DigitalGlobe, GeoEye merger
Proposed combo gets anti-trust scrutiny
The confidential email that landed at GeoEye’s Herndon, Va., headquarters in June looked like checkmate in the company’s unexpected competition for survival against DigitalGlobe, its rival in the U.S. satellite imaging market.
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Aerostats as swarming boat spotters
A time honored strategy for reinvigorating a defense project in Congress is to tie it to an...
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FISA Scuffle
Opponents seize renewal as chance to reel in surveillance
The coming months look rich with potential turning points in the debate over whether the U.S. has gone too far in the expanded eavesdropping allowed by amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The FISA collection strategy is a top contributor to the intelligence community's big data storage dilemma and inevitably sweeps up emails, texts and telephone calls to and from people on U.S. soil. For critics, the collections amount to trampling American privacy rights. For supporters, there are plenty of safeguards in place to protect privacy and keep Americans safe. About the only consensus is that if Congress doesn't act, the sun will set Dec. 31 on the FISA amendments and their expanded eavesdropping.
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., supports renewing the amendments in his role as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on intelligence, and he predicts at most a political "scuffle" [pls link to the excerpts and intro of his interview] over a bill introduced in June that would extend the eavesdropping through 2017.
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