'Nothing is beyond our reach' logo claims

The logo for the latest secret mission by the National Reconnaissance Office has raised a few eyebrows.(NRO)

The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office launched a new spy satellite Thursday evening on mission NROL-39 -- and the new logo and tagline are quite an eye opener.

The new logo features a giant, world-dominating octopus, its sucker-covered tentacles encircling the planet while it looks on with determination, a steely glint in its enormous eye. The logo carries a five-word tagline: “Nothing is beyond our reach.” Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist and senior policy analyst with the ACLU, raised a quizzical eyebrow at the new slogan.

In preparation for launch, the NROL-39 payload is transported and mated to its Atlas V booster at Vandenberg's Space Launch Complex-3. (ULA) "Advice to @ODNIgov: You may want to downplay the massive dragnet spying thing right now. This logo isn't helping,” he wrote. An agency spokeswoman told Forbes that there's a very good reason for the symbol: The octopus is intelligent, and therefore a good emblem for an intelligence agency. “NROL-39 is represented by the octopus, a versatile, adaptable, and highly intelligent creature. Emblematically, enemies of the United States can be reached no matter where they choose to hide,” said Karen Furgerson, a spokeswoman for the NRO. “‘Nothing is beyond our reach’ defines this mission and the value it brings to our nation and the warfighters it supports, who serve valiantly all over the globe, protecting our nation.” Click here for more from Fox News. If we could believe the NRO efforts were honestly only reaching for enemies; it might not trouble so many.  Required for such belief, however, is evidence that the Obama Administration follows, without exception, the Rule of Law and Constitutional restrictions limiting abuse of power by government. There is much more evidence that this administration lies to most everyone about most everything as a standard of operations.