DHS National Applications Office Defunding
Current understanding
HR2703 (111th Congress, 2009) would prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from obligating or expending any funds for the National Applications Office (NAO) or any successor office processing requests for classified satellite (national intelligence) imagery for civil, homeland security, or law enforcement purposes. The NAO was a DHS entity intended to broker access to intelligence-community overhead imagery for domestic users, and drew oversight concerns about domestic surveillance and civil-liberties safeguards. As introduced, the bill did not advance; it is captured here as historical context for the debate over domestic use of classified satellite surveillance.
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To prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from obligating or expending funds for the National Applications Office of the Department of Homeland Security.
17-jun-2009
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