Doublespeak and the National Applications Office
The National Applications Office is a) a part of the INS dedicated to processing immigration forms, b) the part of the CIA in charge of gluing false mustaches on the upper lips of spies, c) a domestic surveillance program involving spy satellites.
If you choise c, you have caught on the the Bush Administration’s antics. Fortunately congress is not quite ready to swallow the whole fish:
A Bush administration program to expand domestic use of Pentagon spy satellites has aroused new concerns in Congress about possible civil-liberties abuses.
On Tuesday, the House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment denying money for the new domestic intelligence operation—cryptically named the “National Applications Office”—until the Homeland Security secretary certifies that any programs undertaken by the center will “comply with all existing laws, including all applicable privacy and civil liberties standards.”
Read the Newsweek story here.