January 10, 2006
Senator Frank Church chaired the
Senate Hearings on the FBI’s Cointelpro operation, which spied upon
& attempted to INFILTRATE, DISRUPT & DISCREDIT the peace
movement, even Martin Luther King Jr.
if a dictator ever took over, the NSA "could enable [him] to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back."
From James Bamford’s NSA, the agency that could be Big Brother, Senator Church:
"That
capability at any time could be turned around on the American people,
and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to
monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t
matter. There would be no place to hide."
He added that if a
dictator ever took over, the NSA "could enable [him] to impose total
tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back."
At the
time, the agency had the ability to listen to only what people said
over the telephone or wrote in an occasional telegram; they had no
access to private letters. But today, with people expressing their
innermost thoughts in e-mail messages, exposing their medical and
financial records to the Internet, and chatting constantly on
cellphones, the agency virtually has the ability to get inside a
person’s mind…
"I don’t want to see this country ever go
across the bridge," Senator Church said. "I know the capacity that is
there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this
agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the
law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that
abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return."
MLK had informants on his staff. I wonder who has informants on their staff, travelling with them today…
BushCo is trying to bury the significance of their illegal spying, why aren’t the Democrats "screaming to the rafters"?
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hmmm- just read this on PDA, "John Conyers (D-MI), a leader in the
Watergate and Iran-Contra investigations"… interesting to note that NO
Accountability came out of those. He also led the election fraud investigation in 2004 which
concluded there was reasonable doubt of fraud, but nothing came of it…
and Conyers led the Downing Street Memo investigation, McGovern’s testimony alone (mp3) should have been enough to force impeachment… yet Conyers focused on collecting signatures asking Bush for more information…
If I were Bush or Cheney, I would certainly be pushing for Conyers to be the lead "investigator" as long as possible.
Think about it- after the explosive DSM hearing, there was no action
until mid July when Barbara Lee introduced a Resolution of Inquiry on
the DSM, which has to be acted on in 14 working days, but she
introduced it "too late" and shucks, they had to wait til after
vacation in Sept to deal with it… and by then Katrina had it and it was
buried. It’s like they were stalling for Bush…
"The
individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so
monstrous he cannot believe it exists." ~ J. Edgar Hoover
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