Looking our for spy satellites

Bill Gertz:

Congress is calling for the creation of a new National Space Intelligence Center to better spy on space-based and other threats to U.S. military, intelligence and commercial satellites.
A provision of the Senate intelligence authorization bill for fiscal 2007 would require the Bush administration to set up the new center within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). The plan was disclosed in a little-noticed section of committee's report on the bill made public Jan. 24.
The report stated that threats to U.S. satellites are increasing, a fact highlighted by China's recent test of an anti-satellite (ASAT) missile interceptor that destroyed a Chinese weather satellite. U.S. reliance on satellites for both national security and commerce is increasing and "a loss of any or all of these assets could do tremendous harm to our economy and security," the report said.
Intelligence spending on spying "concerning threats to our interests in space has declined markedly," and only 10 percent of current intelligence resources are focused on threats to space systems, the report said.
"Recent international events have only served to highlight this problem," the report said in a reference to China's Jan. 11 anti-satellite weapon test, which has drawn international criticism, and an earlier incident involving a Chinese laser illumination of a U.S. satellite in what U.S. intelligence officials said was likely a ground-based laser ASAT test.
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According to the Senate report, the space intelligence center would be devoted solely to gathering and analyzing intelligence on space threats, and would work closely with similar Air Force and Defense Intelligence Agency centers in Ohio and Alabama. The director would be the national Intelligence officer for science and technology.
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It is still not clear to me how this new group would stop the destruction of spy satellites by an enemy. The bext I can see is that they would be watching while it happened.