Access to US satellites information is granted for the use of officials
NAO would permit US police, immigration, drug-enforcement officials to access data from certain US satellites that are passing above America. It is clear that the information would be supplied by spacecraft at most which at the moment are used especially for the use of making meteorological and geological survey, or other scientific assignment. Satellites such as the one mentioned can usually deliver high-resolution photographs which are useful for the matter of law enforcement.
Purpose-built US surveillance satellites operates regularly on behalf of military and intelligence agencies pass above United States frequently. However, even the location of such spacecraft is often deemed to be a secret - for all that it may be well-known to amateur skywatchers. The capabilities of the true spybirds are even more jealously guarded, but realistically this information would soon become common knowledge if ordinary coppers were able to get such imagery.
Therefore, the new NAO probably won’t offer very wide access - if any - to America’s proper sky-spies. But it could provide a wealth of information all the same, and some US legislators are concerned about the implications.
Chertoff diminished such worries, claiming that through assessments had been done and that Congress representitives had been briefed. The DHS chief says that there’s a “good process in place to make sure there aren’t any… transgressions”. The DHS has also revealed that various feds which includes the Secret Service and the FBI have used satellite images of the US of America in many investigations on a case-by-case ground.