Flashback: Church Committee Chair Warned 48 Years Ago About CIA, FBI Controlling Information

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A brand new ‘Church Committee’ with libertarian Consultant Thomas Massie (R-KY) on board is within the works, resulting in questions on what that may imply.

Fox Information host Tucker Carlson prompt that to ensure that Kevin McCarthy to change into Home Speaker, he should concede to 2 actions – releasing ALL of the January sixth information and appointing Massie to go a “Frank Church committee” to review the FBI.

The committee was introduced shortly thereafter, with Massie telling Carlson the information and suggesting he might have been “clairvoyant.”

The unique Church committee was shaped in 1975 to review abuses in numerous intelligence departments, together with the FBI, CIA, and IRS. The revelations, principally unknown to Individuals right this moment, revealed a few of the worst crimes in our nation’s historical past.

“I don’t know if you’re clairvoyant or simply made the long run occur, nevertheless it’s occurring,” Massie revealed.

He vowed this new model of the committee will pursue any “three-letter company” its members believed had violated the Constitutional rights of Individuals and that they’ve “secured a assure that may go wherever the proof leads us.”

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Church Committee Ponders ‘Complete Tyranny’

It wasn’t lengthy earlier than a clip of the late Senator Frank Church, in a dialogue of the committee on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in 1975, resurfaced.

A clip that ought to ship shivers down the spines of each American.

Senator Church was discussing the capability of the intelligence group to harness sure technological developments to watch messages and use such tech in opposition to the American individuals.

And keep in mind, this was in 1975, lengthy earlier than social media and Massive Tech firms like Twitter and Fb, ubiquitous web, or cell telephones.

“The technological capability that the intelligence group has given the federal government may allow it to impose complete tyranny, and there could be no approach to combat again,” he warned.

Senator Church would later add that there could be “no place to cover.”

Paradoxically, No Place to Cover is the title of Glenn Greenwald’s guide about Edward Snowden and the unprecedented revelations concerning the U.S. authorities’s energy, potential, and willingness to spy on harmless Individuals.

Snowden’s revelations got here in 2013 – 38 years after Senator Church’s warnings.

CIA Members Embedded in Media

In one other clip posted by Tyler Cardon, CEO of Blaze Media, Church asks then-CIA Director William Colby whether or not the company has any paid actors working within the media.

“Do you might have any individuals paid by the CIA who’re working for tv networks?” asks Church.

Investigative journalist Carl Bernstein wrote in 1977 that “the usage of journalists has been among the many most efficient technique of intelligence gathering employed by the CIA.”

“The CIA’s use of the American information media has been rather more intensive than Company officers have acknowledged publicly or in closed periods with members of Congress,” he added, noting hyperlinks between the company and the New York Instances, CBS, and Time.

Readers might know this program underneath the umbrella of Operation MOCKINGBIRD, which was revealed by the Church Committee. (Faux information isn’t a brand new phenomenon, individuals!)

If the CIA had the potential to make use of know-how in 1975 to spy on Individuals and had people embedded in company media then, is it any shock that the ‘Twitter Recordsdata’ have proven their affect hasn’t waned by any important quantity?

With Twitter being uncovered as having censored Individuals on the behest of the CIA and the FBI concerning the Hunter Biden laptop computer story and COVID data, Church’s feedback have change into extra prophetic than alarmist.

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