Yesterday’s revelations about widespread government data collection led me to re-read my nine-post series on “Twenty-First Century Eavesdropping” from back in 2006. I was surprised to see how closely that discussion fit the current facts.
Twenty-First Century Eavesdropping
June 7, 2013 by
NOTHING NEW HERE!
from “https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline” we find:
Senate “Church Committee” Investigation Uncovers Illegal Domestic Spying by NSA, Recommends Reforms
1975
(Church Committee Findings)
A bipartisan Senate investigation stemming from Watergate, led by Sen. Frank Church, finds the NSA and other intelligence agencies engaged in a massive domestic spying program, targeting anti-war protesters, civil rights activists, and political opponents. Sen. Church remarked: “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.”