Monday, August 12, 2013

HERE IS SOME OF THE NSA PUBLIC (ONLINE) DEBATE PRESIDENT SAID HE WANTED.

      1. NSA PUBLIC DEBATE IS ON THE INTERNET.


        BELOW IS SOME OF THE PUBLIC (ONLINE) DEBATE PRESIDENT SAID HE WANTED.

        1. WATCH: Senator Ron Wyden on Domestic Data Collection and Privacy Rights via



        1. Noam Chomsky on Snowden & NSA (20 July, 2013): via


        4. Snowden to join board of Press Freedom Foundation - Worcester Telegram & Gazette - telegram.com http://worc.tg/1eFfOxy 


        7. Why Edward Snowden Is a Hero http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/06/why-edward-snowden-is-a-hero.html?mbid=social_retweet via @NewYorker


        10. Edward Snowden is a hero  http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/10/opinion/rushkoff-snowden-hero/index.html?sr=sharebar_twitter


        13. Daniel Ellsberg Calls Edward Snowden A 'Hero,' Says NSA Leak Was Most Important In American His... 
        14. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/edward-snowden-daniel-ellsberg-whistleblower-history_n_3413545.html



        18. Edward Snowden Clemency: The New York Times, The Guardian Urge Obama To Help NSA Whistleblower http://huff.to/1dqmaSZ


        2. ‘America has no functioning democracy’ – Jimmy Carter on NSA http://rt.com/usa/carter-comment-nsa-snowden-261/#.UtgZaBR24Wc.twitter




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          wouldn't need such a large storage capacity facility in if it were for metadata only~
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        3. 10 Aug
          Obama mad at Snowden for starting debate on civil liberties that he would have started anyway as soon as he was done preventing it.
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        4. 10 Aug
          It Seems USA Ist In The Middle Of Government By Corporatism In Which Anything Goes. GW Bush's 4th Term Of Government By Corporatism
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        5. 10 Aug
          The Senator who previously warned us about the NSA's secret interpretation of the Patriot Act used to track yo...
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        6. 10 Aug
          ACLU Asks Spy Court to Release Secret Opinions on Patriot Act Surveillance Powers -- via
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        1. 10 Aug
          Hypocrite in Chief? 5 Limits on NSA Spying that Senator Obama Supported But President Obama Opposes | Alternet
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        2. 10 Aug
          President Obama: Stop Surveillance Secrecy and Hunt for Whistleblowers - Act w/
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        3. 10 Aug
          Obama’s Justification For Monitoring Phone Calls And Emails: ‘Modest’ Privacy Encroachment Is Worth It
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        4. 10 Aug
          TOO LITTLE TOO LATE? Obama Proposes FISA Reforms Amid Growing Concerns Over NSA Surveillance via
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        5. 10 Aug
          NSA surveillance: the long fight to close backdoor into US communications via
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        6. 10 Aug
          NSA Surveillance Needs More than Window Dressing Reform via
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        7. 10 Aug
          Don’t worry, NSA says—we only “touch” 1.6% of daily global Internet traffic
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        8. 10 Aug
          New leak: NSA can search US e-mail data but theoretically won’t
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        9. 10 Aug
          Senator: Weak oversight of NSA may lead to massive location tracking
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        10. 10 Aug
          A Guide to What We Now Know About the NSA's Dragnet Searches of Your Communications -- via
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        11. 10 Aug
          The NSA Black Hole: 5 Basic Things We Still Don’t Know About the Agency’s Snooping - ProPublica via


        1. 10 Aug
          The False Choice- Ben Franklin: Obama on NSA surveillance: Can't have 100% security and 100% privacy — RT USA:
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        2. 10 Aug
          Important Speech Watch: Senator Ron Wyden on Domestic Data Collection and Privacy Rights via
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        3. 10 Aug
          Vladmir Putin Rips Obama's NSA Surveillance Policies as Russia Considers Asylum
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        4. 10 Aug
          President Obama Defends NSA Surveillance Program via
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        5. 10 Aug
          6-7-13 Obama Defends Sweeping NSA Surveillance Program - US News and World Report via
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        6. 10 Aug
          6-7-13 Obama on NSA surveillance: Can't have 100% security and 100% privacy — RT USA:
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        7. 10 Aug
          6-7-13 President Obama Defends NSA Surveillance Programs As “Right Balance” via
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        8. 10 Aug
          6-7-13 Transcript: Obama’s Remarks on NSA Controversy - Washington Wire - WSJ via
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        9. 10 Aug
          6-24-13 Senator Obama vs. President Obama on NSA Surveillance of Americans via
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        10. 10 Aug
          Time to review the ways the gov't is spying on us. Check out ’s guide to the ’s dragnet :
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        11. 10 Aug
          WATCH: Senator Ron Wyden on Domestic Data Collection and Privacy Rights via
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        12. 10 Aug
          6-7-13 Sen Cruz (R-TX) statement re Obama’s comments on the NSA’s gathering phone records:
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        13. 10 Aug
          6-7-13 Obama Defends NSA Programs, Says Congress Knew About Surveillance via
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        14. 10 Aug
          6-9=13 NSA surveillance: lawmakers urge disclosure as Obama 'welcomes' debate via
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        15. 10 Aug
          8-7-13 Obama pushed for tighter regulation of NSA surveillance as a senator via
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        16. 10 Aug
          6-6-13 NSA's Verizon surveillance: how the White House tramples our constitution | Rand Paul via
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        17. 10 Aug
          NSA's Verizon surveillance: how the White House tramples our constitution | Rand Paul via
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        18. 10 Aug
          Obama deflects criticism over NSA surveillance as Democrats sound alarm via
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        19. 10 Aug
          NSA warrantless surveillance (2001–07)
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        20. 10 Aug
          Obama touts NSA surveillance reforms to quell growing unease over programs via
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      2. WATCH: Senator Ron Wyden on Domestic Data Collection and Privacy Rights via







      3. 10 Aug
        Top Stories - Surveillance: The Clash between Senator Obama and President Obama - AllGov - News
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        (Aug 10, 2013) 9/11 Commission Chairs: NSA Spying Is “Out of Control” via


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        There’s too much we don’t know about spying. But what we do know is clearly incompatible w/ the Constitution:

      December 21, 1974: New York Times Reveals CIA Spied on US Citizens for Decades
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      May 17, 2002: FISA Court Refuses to Give Justice Department Broad Domestic Surveillance Powers
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      NSA “It is this indifference to constitutional restraints that is perhaps the most threatening of all the evidence..”

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      RT Former staffer: has prevented Congress from Actually Debating spying
    1. 10 Aug
      2 Senators Accuse Justice Dept. of Twisting Patriot Act:



  2. 10 Aug
    Justice Dept. Is Accused of Misleading Public on Patriot Act:
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  3. 10 Aug
    Government’s Interpretation of Spying Turns 200 Years of American Law On Its Head
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  4. 10 Aug
    Government’s “Secret Interpretation” of Patriot Act:
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  5. 10 Aug
    "We don’t think the government’s statutory [NSA] interpretations are even remotely correct." via
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  6. 10 Aug
    Fisa Court: NSA spying on American citizens is in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution
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  7. 10 Aug
    Secret court won’t object to release of opinion on illegal surveillance via
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  8. 10 Aug
    Major opinion shifts, in the US and Congress, on NSA surveillance and privacy | Glenn Greenwald via
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  9. 10 Aug
    XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' via
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  10. 10 Aug
    Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSA | Glenn Greenwald via
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    FISA court says this is a violation of the 4th Amendment and is illegal. via
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  12. 10 Aug
    Justice Department Fights Release of Secret Court Opinion Finding Unconstitutional Surveillance via
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  13. 10 Aug
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  14. 9 Aug
    What Did President Obama Know About Unconstitutional NSA Spying On American Citizens And When Did He Know It?
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  15. 9 Aug
    OBAMA NSATIMELINE: 'Nobody is listening to your calls': Obama's evolution on NSA reforms via

  16. 9 Aug
    The NSA's Defense Gets Even More Pathetic from
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  17. 9 Aug
    It Seems USA Is In The Middle Of Government By Corporatism In Which Anything Goes. GW Bush's 4th Term Of Government By Corporatism
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  18. 9 Aug
    . Open Congress Debate Needed. Another Set Of Secrets Won't Silence USA Critics. O Appears 2B Stalling & Hoping Problem Goes Away


  20. 9 Aug
    OMG Glenn Greenwald: 80 Page FISA Court Ruling That NSA Spying Is Unstitutional NOTReleased To Congress via
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  21. 9 Aug
    Greenwald on ABC: No One Can See Secret FISA Opinion Ruling that Gov't Spying is Unconstitutional via
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  22. 9 Aug
    NSA Surveillance: FISA Court Says Justice Department Should Publish Secret Court Document:
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  23. 9 Aug
    Justice Department Fights Release of Secret Court Opinion Finding Unconstitutional Surveillance via
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  24. 9 Aug
    Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSA | Glenn Greenwald via
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  25. 9 Aug
    Glenn Greenwald "X-Keyscore Has 41 BILLION Internet Records Stored Each ...: via
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  26. 9 Aug
    Glenn Greenwald on Latest NSA Revelation XKeyscore: via
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  27. 9 Aug
    NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic Communication: via
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  28. 9 Aug
    Rep Amash "NSA Director DID LIE To Congress! ANY Other American Might Be...: via
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  29. 9 Aug
    Glenn Greenwald: The Impact of The NSA Revelations (Full Interview): via
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  30. 9 Aug
    [206] Jimmy Carter Defends Snowden, Zimmerman Verdict & Jim Crow, Judgin...: via
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  31. 9 Aug
    Glenn Greenwald: Growing Backlash Against NSA Spying Shows Why U.S. Want...: via
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  32. 9 Aug
    Reps. Conyers & Massie on Bipartisan Campaign Against NSA Spying; Call F...: via
  33. 9 Aug
    Why Wait Until 20154 To Modify Or Repeal The Patriot Act?
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  34. 9 Aug
    White House NSA Talking Points 'Completely Misleading' Greenwald Spars With MSNBC's Brzezinski...: via
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  35. 9 Aug
    James Sensenbrenner GOES OFF On NSA At Fisa Hearing. You Can't Have It B...: via
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  36. 9 Aug
    Jim Sensenbrenner, Patriot Act Author, Slams 'Un-American' NSA Verizon Phone Records Grab via
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  37. 9 Aug
    Alan Grayson Took An Oath To Protect The Constitution Of The USA & Is Doing A Fine Job Doing It via
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  38. 9 Aug
    Why Alan Grayson Is the Most Effective Member of the House via
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  39. 9 Aug
    Alan Grayson "They're NOT Saying That It Prevented Terrorist Attacks AT ...: via
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  40. 9 Aug
    Rep. Alan Grayson on Kent State: "They Can't Kill Us All": via
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  41. 9 Aug
    . Alan Grayson "US Sovereignty Being Handed to Corporate Interests" … via
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  42. 9 Aug
    Watch: The Movie FAIR GAME: Valerie Plame Story Of Undercover CIA Officer "Outed" By White House Leaks. Naomi Watts & Sean Penn Star

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    Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud -- Pt. 4/4: via
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    Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud -- Pt. 3/4: via
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    Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud -- Pt. 2/4: via
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    Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud -- Pt. 1/4: via
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  47. 9 Aug
    Papantonio: Deficit Reduction Exposes Austerity Lies


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    We Can Do Better than Gifts to Corporations
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  49. 9 Aug
    Predator Corporations Dominate Our Economy Turning The American Dream Into The American Nightmare via
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  50. 9 Aug
    0.5% of the global population to controlling almost 40 percent of all the wealth is insane. via

  51. 9 Aug
    Corporatism Is Not Capitalism: 7 Things About Predator Corporations Every American Should Know via

  52. 9 Aug
    Papantonio: The Detroit Blueprint To Bankrupt America
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  53. 9 Aug
    Obama's New Economic Plan is Insane
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  54. 8 Aug
    MUST WATCH: RFK, Jr: How To Save American Democracy FROM CORPORATE POLICE STATE: via
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  55. 8 Aug
    US Senate IP Caught Defacing Edward Snowden's Wikipedia Entry via
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  56. 8 Aug
    I Recommend The Movie FAIR GAME: Valerie Plame Story Of Undercover CIA Officer "Outed" By White House Leaks. Naomi Watts & Sean Penn Star

  57. 7 Aug
    6 More Reasons Larry Summers Should Not Be Fed Chair | Mother Jones - via AmericanMOM-598098 - Newsvine
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  58. 7 Aug
    Alan Grayson "US Sovereignty Being Handed to Corporate Interests" via
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  59. 7 Aug
    Depth of Tax Reform Trap Confirmed: $5 Trillion via



  61. 6 Aug
    Senator Byron Dorgan - Take This Job And Ship It: via
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Sunday, August 11, 2013

Documentation Of Historical USA AGENCIES SPYING ON CITIZENS

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    14 published reports of the Church Committee on the formation, operation, abuses of U.S. intelligence agencies
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      May 17, 2002: FISA Court Refuses to Give Justice Department Broad Domestic Surveillance Powers
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    Feb 28,1976: Ford Limits US Agencies’ Abilities to Spy on US Citizens
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January 27, 1975 Church Committee Created

1964-Present
January 27, 1975
Church Committee Created
Photograph of Senator Frank Church of Idaho
In 1973, CIA Director James Schlesinger told Senate Armed Services Chairman John Stennis that he wished to brief him on a major upcoming operation.  “No, no my boy,” responded Senator Stennis.  “Don’t tell me.  Just go ahead and do it, but I don’t want to know.”  Similarly, when Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J.W. Fulbright was told of the CIA subversion of the Allende government in Chile, he responded, “I don’t approve of intervention in other people’s elections, but it has been a long-continued practice.”
Late in 1974, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh revealed that the CIA was not only destabilizing foreign governments, but was also conducting illegal intelligence operations against thousands of American citizens.
On January 27, 1975, an aroused Senate voted overwhelmingly to establish a special 11-member investigating body along the lines of the recently concluded Watergate Committee.  Under the chairmanship of Idaho Senator Frank Church, with Texas Senator John Tower as vice-chairman, the select committee was given nine months and 150 staffers to complete its work.
The so-called Church Committee ran into immediate resistance from the Ford administration, concerned about exposing American intelligence operations and suspicious of Church’s budding presidential ambitions.
The committee interviewed 800 individuals, and conducted 250 executive and 21 public hearings.  At the first televised hearing, staged in the Senate Caucus Room, Chairman Church dramatically displayed a CIA poison dart gun to highlight the committee’s discovery that the CIA directly violated a presidential order by maintaining stocks of shellfish toxin sufficient to kill thousands.
Lacking focus and necessarily conducting much of its work behind closed doors, the panel soon lost any hope of becoming a second Watergate Committee.  Critics, from Bing Crosby to Paul Harvey, accused it of treasonous activity.  The December 1975 assassination of a CIA station chief in Greece intensified the public backlash against its mission.
The panel issued its two-foot-thick final report in May 1976 without the support of influential Republican members John Tower and Barry Goldwater.  Despite its shortcomings, the inquiry demonstrated the need for perpetual surveillance of the intelligence community and resulted in the creation of the permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Historian Henry Steele Commager assessed the Committee’s legacy.  Referring to executive branch officials who seemed to consider themselves above the law, he said, “It is this indifference to constitutional restraints that is perhaps the most threatening of all the evidence that emerges from the findings of the Church Committee.”
Reference Items: 
Johnson, Loch K.  A Season of Inquiry: The Senate Intelligence Investigation.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1985.

Ashby, LeRoy and Rod Gramer.  Fighting the Odds: The Life of Senator Frank Church.  Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1994.

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