Because having the home of the VP plainly visible from easily-obtainable aerial photographs is kind of a bad thing? I looked this up a while ago, and although the same thing applies to the WH, there’s some other reason why they can’t pixel that out.
It could be that US Geological Survey satellites weren’t provided with the modern image filtering technology that allows cameras to safely capture the Vice President’s image.
Well, having decided to get playful with Google Maps in my old home of Washington DC…
The White House is in clear.
The Capitol is in clear.
All House and Senate office buildings are in clear.
The Pentagon is in clear.
The CIA complex is in clear.
The National Reconnaissance Office is in clear.
The National Security Agency is in clear.
Norfolk Navy Base is in clear.
Only the Naval Observatory is obscured.
What the HELL is he doing in there that makes it more paranoid than Central Intel and NSA?
I dunno. It is a bit of an open secret that after the first WTC attack, lots of anti-terrorism stuff was built all over Washington. At the Naval Observatory, the Veep got a “Secret” bunker under his pool.
I can believe that the resolution might show a watermelon, but not its shriveled up stem.
Seriously, it would have been nice if Google had told him to get stuffed. If I was a publisher, I’d be tempted to put out a book of hi-res shots of the grounds. It seems that this is secrecy for the sake of secrecy.