Abolish the FBI. Nothing but a bunch of crooked, creeping busybodies.
Church Committee Oversight Uncovered FBI Spying on Innocent Americans
In the early 1970s, revelations about the FBI spying on innocent Americans shocked the
country. Led by Senator Frank Church, Congress thoroughly investigated allegations of
FBI abuses and made recommendations to prevent further abuse. What the Church
Committee found was breathtaking.
From the 1950s through the early 1970s, the FBI and other intelligence agencies launched
various domestic programs to spy on Americans. Political dissidents, anti-war activists,
civil rights activists, groups from the left to the right were infiltrated, disrupted, and
harassed, often for nothing more than exercising their First Amendment rights.2 For
example, government agents infiltrated the “Women’s Liberation Movement.”
FBI
sources reported on the formation of the Conservative American Christian Action
Council, and even collected information about the anti-Communist John Birch
Society.
3 The NAACP was investigated to determine if it “had connections with” the
Communist Party. In the first year of the investigation, the FBI issued a report stating that
the NAACP had a “strong tendency” to “steer clear of Communist activities.” No
evidence was ever adduced by the FBI to rebut this report, yet the FBI investigation
continued for a total of twenty-five years.4