Editing Immaculate Constellation (section)

== Man in the Middle ==
The program functions similarly to a MITM attack on cyber-information systems. IMMACULATE CONSTELLATION positions itself between the constellation of US intelligence collection assets and the rest of the mil/gov enterprise. By doing so, they get first pick at any data coming over the wires, thus preventing it from ever reaching the rest of the intelligence community. Because highly classified data (such as satellite derived intelligence, signals intelligence, etc) has to be transmitted in specific ways over very specific channels, programs like IMMACULATE CONSTELLATION can position themselves within these pathways (ie: channels) to collect, alter or outright suppress the information being reported.