The article mentions the Kyl-Bingaman Amendment once around the middle, that's the main reason. The wikipedia article is short and covers it well enough, but in

The article mentions the Kyl-Bingaman Amendment once around the middle, that's the main reason. The wikipedia article is short and covers it well enough, but in short: > The Kyl–Bingaman Amendment (KBA) prohibits US authorities from granting a license for collecting or disseminating high resolution satellite imagery of Israel at a higher resolution than is available from other commercial sources, that is, from companies outside of the United States. An exception exists if this is done by a US federal agency, or if it is done in order to abolish the secrecy of such recordings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyl%E2%80%93Bingaman_Amendment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyl%E2%80%93Bingaman_Amendment