When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time. -Max McGee
“I really thought you had to run the football to control the game,” Erhardt once said. “You had to throw the football to score but had to run the football to win.” - Ron Erhardt
MAFB B52s flew over our area quite a bit. Was almost common place for many North Dakotans likely!
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While it is true that this technology exists, I would take your friend's claim with a serious grain of salt. Tasking satellites is not as simple as just zipping one over with a joystick to see what's going on someplace - getting satellite imagery of something specific is like getting God to move to a different seat so you can sit down in his place. It would be a little easier with something like a drone though, but I'd still doubt this because it's a crime.
Federal military intelligence assets aren't *supposed* to be used to spy on American citizens - President Reagan restricted such activities with Executive Order 12333, when he established the DoD Intelligence Oversight Program. The military can easily listen in on cellular and chordless phone calls and monitor events from above in real time, but can't legally do so because it's creepy - this is still supposed to be a free county. This is the reason that Joint Task Force 6 (use of federal intelligence assets for counterdrug interdiction in TX and AZ) is such a controversial mission.
I'm sure that your friend might be able to look and see what his dad is doing, but he's an undocumented criminal if he does. If he's bragging about spying on his dad (assuming he's a US citizen), he's a damn fool.
TAB? Is this your bike?
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Ok, how do I make my images bigger?
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