This is a silly argument. The fact that Congress appropriates funds for an agency (or for an agency initiative) doesn't mean that everything that agency does is automatically legal. For one thing, the courts have never ruled on the legality of the SPOT program, to my knowledge. Until that happens, we just don't know if it's legal, funding or not.

Congress funds all kinds of agencies (the military, for instance), but they -- and their employees -- do illegal things from time to time.

Bruce