A quote from <http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55157-2000Nov23.html> regarding amateur satellite watchers: "WALMART TECH: One satellite expert who is talking for attribution is Allen Thomson, a former CIA physicist who took umbrage when Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), the commission's co-chairman, said in unveiling the report that those who track spy satellites in the sky and publish their orbital elements on the Internet are aiding terrorists." "If Senator Kerrey believes that amateurs are doing significant harm to U.S. national security, he should wonder why the NRO has spent many years and many, many billions of dollars building systems that allow the national security to be damaged by a few hobbyists working part time with $50 worth of WalMart equipment," Thomson said." Bill Bard ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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