Titled: Spy Agency Watching Americans From Space

WASHINGTON (AP) - A little-known spy agency that analyzes imagery taken from the skies has been spending significantly more time watching U.S. soil.

Watching U.S. soil is a thankless and boring task - all you see is mud until the grass and weeds appear.

Seriously though, this is the season for sparkling revelations. First the phone tapping, then the call list recording and now the watching from above. These don't really suprise me, unlike maybe the gubbermint collecting all your trash together and databasing it.

Maybe its because I grew up in the UK, the most watched society in the western world, with its millions of cameras watching every move everywhere you make.

We maybe still get some protection from the resolution issue. The Israelis admit to a just over 2 foot resolution from theirs. Even commercial birds work around the 2 foot region. Enough to pick out people but maybe not enough yet to recognize them, unlike the UK's cameras.

I hope we have good, honest watchers watching the watchers.