Greenwald: 4 points about the 1971 FBI break-in

[Uncle Joe]

5. And make no mistake about it, the creation of the Church Committee led to the NSA spying on two U.S.

Senators on that committee, Democrat Frank Church and Republican Howard Baker among other notable Americans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee

Committee members[edit]Majority (Democratic) Minority (Republican)

Frank Church, Chairman, Idaho
Philip Hart, Michigan
Walter Mondale, Minnesota
Walter Huddleston, Kentucky
Robert Morgan, North Carolina
Gary Hart, Colorado
John Tower, Vice Chairman, Texas
Howard Baker, Tennessee
Barry Goldwater, Arizona
Charles Mathias, Maryland
Richard Schweiker, Pennsylvania

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB441/

Washington, D.C., September 25, 2013 – During the height of the Vietnam War protest movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the National Security Agency tapped the overseas communications of selected prominent Americans, most of whom were critics of the war, according to a recently declassified NSA history. For years those names on the NSA's watch list were secret, but thanks to the decision of an interagency panel, in response to an appeal by the National Security Archive, the NSA has released them for the first time. The names of the NSA's targets are eye-popping. Civil rights leaders Dr. Martin Luther King and Whitney Young were on the watch list, as were the boxer Muhammad Ali, New York Times journalist Tom Wicker, and veteran Washington Post humor columnist Art Buchwald. Also startling is that the NSA was tasked with monitoring the overseas telephone calls and cable traffic of two prominent members of Congress, Senators Frank Church (D-Idaho) and Howard Baker (R-Tennessee).

Of course this would be an authoritarian's moist dream come true.

Thanks for the thread, Luminous Animal.