Many readers probably never heard of the Church Committee hearings. It was the one time in US Person's memory that Congress stood up to the spys. Watch those "little red riding hoods" like Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, Frank Church and even Ted Kennedy ask the right questions. The news piece is reported by Daniel Shorr who ran into career trouble at CBS when he reported leaked information from the secret Pike Committee report on illegal FBI and CIA activities, and took the 5th when called to testify to his source. Rare guest appearance by a medicated James Jesus Angleton, superspy. (Yes, that really was his middle name!):
In an age when citizens can be tracked by their smart phones, and speech they thought was protected by law perhaps from decades ago can be electronically perused for possible violation of more than 27,000 pages of federal crimes alone, "having nothing to hide" is not a good defense against being on a somebody's politically motivated black list. We no longer live in a democracy, but a corporatist police state and "Big Brother" is definitely not friendly!