“If a dictator ever took over, the NSA could enable it to impose a total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.”
“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.”
“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.”
— U.S. Senator Frank Church, 1975
Interesting by Frank Church. Thanks for posting.
How eerily prescient Sen Church’s words, of 1975, were.
Post #44- Thanks for the reminder about the warning from Senator Frank Church.