Kills me to say it, but Frank Church was probably right.
I used to dislike Frank Church, until I read a little more about him. He was an intelligence officer in the army in World War II. The dude was a common sense Patriot and he saw a budding national security surveillance state. Unfortunately when he helped create FISA, it was intended as a method to keep a tight rein on the CIA. They managed to turn it into a secret court system to legalize and hide their wrongdoing. I know a lot of people don’t agree, but in 50 or 60 years people will speak of the CIA the way we speak of the Gestapo or the SS today. Absolute enemies of freedom and the American government as designed by our founders.