Privacy is not the issue comment comment

In a post that was a comment, Myk revealed this humorous logo:

Now the NROL, the National Reconnaissance Office (yes, Virginia there is such an entity), has launched a new spy-satelite, NROL-39, on December 5. Here is the logo:

No, this one is not from the Onion, as here is the logo on the rocket:

As Alex Tabarrok says on Tyler Cowen's Marginal Revolution site, "When the history of how the United States became a dystopian, surveillance state is written no one will be able to say that we were not warned."