5 things we learned from inside the U.S. intelligence war

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5 things we learned from inside the U.S. intelligence war

By Eli Watkins, CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/24/politics/terror-threat-intelligence-nsa/index.html

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1. The United States has satellites that "sense"


"We don't have a presence physically in Syria," Director of National Intelligence James Clapper admits. "When you're thwarted in one direction with one particular discipline, you try to compensate for it in other ways."

The United States compensates for its lack of human resources on the ground in Syria by trying to get the most out of its resources in space.

The National Reconnaissance Office has launched spy satellites to monitor activity the world over. But these satellites don't just take pictures. Even from the void of space, they hear noise, sense heat and record vibrations.

"We used to play near tracks, railroad tracks, and you could feel the train coming before you could hear it. You could hear it before you could see it," NRO Director Betty Sapp explained, comparing her childhood experience with the satellites.


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