Big Brother and Spy Satellites

I was reading "The Being"'s last post and something in it made me think of something else.
"actually it turned out that ALL OF SOCIETY was filmed and still is and for the most part, most of society does not even know...they call this secret filming by the government Big Brother...and yes, it is quite real and all things are filmed...without your consent or knowledge!"
I went looking and found this......

Satellites Spy on Washington from on High
Washington, D.C., home of the CIA, National Security Administration (NSA) and FBI, is a well-known haven for spies and surveillance. But new satellite pictures of the White House, Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial show these government agencies aren't the only ones watching and being watched.
These latest images from Dulles, Va., satellite-imaging company, GeoEye, are among the first to be collected by the GeoEye 1, a satellite launched into polar orbit on September 6 that can "see" objects on Earth as small as 16 inches (0.41 meter) in size in black-and-white mode or 64.6 inches (1.64 meters) in color. Images from the GeoEye 1, which stands 20 feet (6.1 meters) high and weighs more than 4,300 pounds (1,950 kilograms), so impressed Google that the Internet search giant plans to add the satellite's high-resolution, digital color photos to Google Earth next month.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=spying-washington-from-satellite

Now I have had a couple of friends that worked in different branches of military intelligence.
( I know, I know, that's an oxymoron)
Anyway, they all told me that whatever technology the goverment admits to having, you can figure they are really about 10 to 20 years beyond that.

Conspiracy Planet - The Alternative News & History Network

Conspiracy Planet - The Alternative News & History Network:
"During the testimony of Gonzales, Senator Patrick Leahey said, 'In the 32 years since I first came to the senate... I have never seen a time when our constitution and fundamental rights of Americans were more threatened by their own government.'

Question: Did Senator Leahy vote for the US Constitution-killing USA PATRIOT Act?)

(1-22-07) Last week Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appeared before Senator Arlen Specter, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to testify about the domestic spying program, which has been stalled in its implementation because of squabbles regarding who’s going to run it and who’s going to have the oversight capacity.

Initially the National Security Agency (NSA) was exposed by the New York Times in December 2005, as being authorized by Bush to monitor international phone calls and e-mails of citizens without first obtaining a court warrant from FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) court."