The chairman of that committee, Frank Church, warned about the NSA in 1975: > "That capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and n

The chairman of that committee, Frank Church, warned about the NSA in 1975: > "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... 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." > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Church#Warning_about_the_NSA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Church#Warning_about_the_...