Risen attributes the past twenty years’ revival of Church’s reputation to Dick Cheney’s constant refrain that what thwarted the Bush torture program was the FISA result of Church committee investigation of the CIA assassination program begun by Allan Dulles during the Eisenhower administration. Church was supportive to newly elected Senator Joe Biden on early family loss. Oh what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to deceive! #ChurchCommittee #FrankChurch #FISA #CIA #TheLastHonesMan

Finished this while we were on the Washington coast around August 23. Thought I had posted a review: inspiring, thorough. I don’t read a lot of biography: this is a political one of a most interesting US Senator: Frank Church, yes of #ChurchCommittee renown. Risen assesses Church’s influence has only increased since his death at 59 in 1984, especially the legacy of investigating US intelligence culture and the ultimate #ForeignIntelligenceSurveillanceAct and the creation of #FISA #FrankChurch

My 2020's prediction for the next ten years is that there WILL be a replay of the 1975 #ChurchCommittee with #SocialMedia & #BubbledSocialMedia discussions and how #CI's have driven this to unsustantial levels AGAIN, since 1975, the multiple #WhiteCollarCrime st #SocialMediaCompanies trying to do coverups on their #CI plays on the levels of #crime and #espionage for personal profit is going to catapult those caught into the spotlight, notably, #DJTsHandler. #Soon. 👀👀📰🗞️📡🛰️📺

☀️☀️☀️#Meta☀️☀️☀️
🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
#houseintelligencecommittee
#senateintelligencecommittee

Now couple this above to an out of control since 1975 #ChurchCommittee hearings being run with the same EXEC Summary but with more modern names added with the SAME. FSCKING. CONCLUSIONS. DUE. TO. THE. #counterintelligence directives by #WhiteListedForCrime #CI's. 📰🗞️📡🛰️📺👀👀

Citation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee

My 2020's prediction for the next ten years is that there WILL be a replay of the 1975 #ChurchCommittee with #SocialMedia & #BubbledSocialMedia discussions and how #CI's have driven this to unsubstantial levels AGAIN, since 1975, the unsubstantial coverups on the levels of #crime and #espionage for personal profit catapults those caught into the spotlight, notably, #DJTsHandler. 👀👀📰🗞️📡🛰️📺

☀️☀️☀️#Meta☀️☀️☀️
🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
#houseintelligencecommittee
#senateintelligencecommittee

Now couple this above to an out of control since 1975 #ChurchCommittee hearings being run with the same EXEC Summary but with more modern names added with the SAME. FSCKING. CONCLUSIONS. DUE. TO. THE. #counterintelligence directives by #WhiteListedForCrime #CI's. 📰🗞️📡🛰️📺👀👀

For non-Americans, this is a good explanation of the current references to the 'Church Committee' and explains why what the republicans are doing now is not the same thing at all.
#USPol #USPolitics #ChurchCommittee

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-claims-it-s-creating-a-new-church-committee-this-is-what-s-really-going-on/?cx_testId=6&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=2&cx_experienceId=EXC93HV4HK4I#cxrecs_s

#Trustyworthyness and #news & #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp

#Oculus <--- _THIS_
ESPECIALLY.

.... Do _NOT_ go hand in hand since the 2010's, obvs. by example of past presser events and coverage.

As a #NewsDirector I would advise all #TechReporters & #Reporters in general to treat _everything_ that their #PROffice has to say as _bullshit_ UNTIL proven otherwise.

Data. Data. Data.

This leads to a successful story imo.

When people START talking about the #PoliceDepartments and #IntelligenceAgencies & #PrivateInvestigators & #Lawyers in the room, only _then_, when looked at through the lens of #WhitelistedCrimePrograms that the above engage in ON THIS PLATFORM like the #CounterIntelligence part THEN things START to make sense a bit more post #TotalInformationAwareness #TIA wise. Init?

I will cite one program #ChurchCommittee finding from 1975 and challenge a revisit of these hearings the in the 2020's. Same Exec Summary just add some more names basically. 🧐

Citation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee

We don't have honorable men and women in government, however. #FBIcorruption #ChurchCommittee #FISA #intelligencecommunity

https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-08-15-1970s-senate-report-dark-history-corrupt-fbi-cia-propaganda.html

US Domestic Surveillance Disclosures pre-dating Edward Snowden's Revelations

Asking for sources of any current activities met with some resistance at HN. Challenged for any awareness of pre-Snowden programmes, I listed a few I was aware of, off the top of my head:

Regards pre-Snowden, the situation was far more than an "open secret", there were multiple documented projects and methods employed. Among them:

• 2013: Hemisphere, an AT&T call records database dating to the 1980s accessible by the US DEA. (This was publicised near-simultaneously with Snowden's own 2013 disclosures.) https://www.eff.org/cases/hemisphere

• 2006: Mark Klein and the Room 641A revelations concerning AT&T's beam splitters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

• 2005, William Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe, NSA whistleblower, warrantless surveillance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(intelligence_official)

• 2004, Russell Tice, NSA surveillance including of congressional members. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2006/01/why-nsa-whistle-blower-russ-tice-may-be-right.html

There were very strong suspicions around the TIA (total information awareness) and USA PATRIOT ACT (2003, 2001). I recall much chatter about this at the time, and the related FISA court, though little by way of specific details of technological measures and methods involved.

Carnivore, a WinNT workstation-based tool, disclosed ~2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software)

There are telephnic data retention programmes, including MAINWAY (revealed in 2006), containing an estimated over 1.9 trillion call-detail records, and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAINWAY

Project ECHELON, with disclosures of varying aspects from 1972 -- 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

There are earlier periods, notably addressed by the FBI's own COINTELPRO archives (https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro), though for my purposes I'm considering "modern" projects to be circa 1990 onwards. (COINTELPRO and the Church Committee hearings resulted in substantial changes, at least publically, to US domestic surveillance).

And I've compiled a long list of pre-1990 references of concerns regarding significant technologists who'd warned of the risks of information technology as a tool of surveillance and control, largely as no such list seemed extant: https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105074933053020193

I'm well aware that documentation of clandestine and national security issues is difficult to come by, see the TK case for one reason why that is.

But that's also why specific documentation is so valuable and why I'd requested that.

(Adapted from an HN comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27184956 )

#surveillance #SurveillanceState #SurveillanceCapitalism #NSA #CIA #FBI #Carnivore #ECHELON #PatriotAct #FISA #MAINWAY #Room614A #ATT #MarkKlein #WilliamBinney #RussellTice #Hemisphere #EdwardSnowden #COINTELPRO #ChurchCommittee