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Notable passage: "The program was secret until March 8, 1971, when the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI burgled an FBI field office in Media, Pennsyl
by joe_the_user 2y ago
Notable passage: "The program was secret until March 8, 1971, when the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI burgled an FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania, took several dossiers, and exposed the program by passing this material to news agencies."
Most of the various programs involving the CIA spying on, harassing and so-forth Americans have been revealed by either whistle blowers like Edward Snowden or group like the "Citizens' Commission" (basically a group of radicals, not a public organization). Which is to say that a lack of discussion of such activities isn't evidence they are not occurring.
- dfxm12 2y agoSo, in other words, you're saying that "the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"? Would these be known unknowns or unknown knowns?
- doublerabbit 2y agoWe can neither confirm nor deny these knowns.
- buyucu 2y agoThis probably means that FBI has done way worse stuff than this. It just wasn't exposed yet.
- Fricken 2y agoI knew an idealistic woman who went to the 9th ward after Hurricane Katrina to help people. She joined an impromptu group that had amongst it's organizers a Black Panther. The group was infiltrated by an undercover FBI agent and broken up. That's my anecdote. COINTELPRO was alive and well in 2005, at least.
- VOIPThrowaway 2y agoAs a conservative, I went to a later Occupy Wall Street rally. Interesting people. The feds were obvious, and they were stirring up shit.