On August 17, 1975, Sen. Frank Church appeared on NBC's
Meet the Press to discuss the results of his full-scale investigation into America's burgeoning intelligence capabilities.
Sen. Church revealed startling information and closed with a dire warning to every citizen of the United States.
America's intelligence gathering 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.
If this govt. ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the govt. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the govt., no matter how privately it was done, is w/in the reach of the govt. Such is the capability of this technology.
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