Hollywood Imagined It. The Military Actually Built it.

In 1998, Enemy of the State imagined a satellite that could track anyone, anywhere. A few years later, engineers built a real version of it, not in space, but in the skies above Iraq. This video traces the actual history of WAMI (Wide Area Motion Imagery): how it was developed by the Air Force, DARPA, and the CIA to track insurgent networks, how it quietly came home to police departments in cities like Baltimore, what a federal appeals court ultimately ruled about it, and where the technology s