<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/42cdc9a5-b824-4898-9610-e35ee4b7b77f/2DEE56F8-4383-4C47-92C4-DB1BA42676C7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/07/cheney-obstruct.html" href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/07/cheney-obstruct.html" style="font-size: 11px;">latimesblogs.latimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/07/cheney-obstruct.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/latimesblogs.latimes.com/img/2F263747-30E4-42BF-A792-335BB4553520" alt="Dick Cheney Vice President's House November 11, 2000" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/07/cheney-obstruct.html"><P><A target="_blank" href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/07/what-is-google.html" linkindex="98">Sharon Weinberger</A>, a blogger on national security issues, noticed the other day that Google Earth had blurred its image of the vice president's house -- at the Naval Observatory on Massachusetts Avenue. She wondered if Google Earth, which has reportedly bowed to requests from China's government not to post images of Beijing's military installations, was bowing to pressure from the Bush administration to obscure Dick Cheney's house.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/07/cheney-obstruct.html"><P>In this instance, our image was from the USGS and given the resolution involved the USGS blurred it.  When you zoom in a far as possible in the highest resolution available in Yahoo Maps and Microsoft Live Maps, you'll notice those images are blurred too. So ultimately, this is not something that's exclusive to Google Earth or Google Maps.  </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/07/cheney-obstruct.html"><P>So, not a Google Earth issue but a U.S. government issue. Still, Weinberger's question is well-taken: Is the administration fudging photos of Cheney's house because of rumors that there's a bunker hidden underneath?</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2DEE56F8-4383-4C47-92C4-DB1BA42676C7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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