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This was done post-911. Prior to that, there was constant spying on Americans which was investigated in the post-Vietnam era in the 1970s, after the public revelation of wiretapping by the CIA and other agencies on people who were against that conflict but were mostly ordinary citizens. That spying was prompted by all those more and more violent protests against the war, including pipe bombings by anarchists Bernadette Dorn and her \u201cman\u201d, Bill Ayers. Still, it was illegal to do that to any American. Before that, it was the HUAC investigating potential Soviet spies and sympathizers in the 1950s, and one of their \u201csuspects\u201d was Edward R. Murrow.<\/p>\n
Daniel Ellsberg precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the\u00a0Pentagon Papers<\/a><\/em>, a top-secret\u00a0Pentagon<\/a>\u00a0study of the\u00a0U.S. government<\/a>\u00a0decision-making in relation to the\u00a0Vietnam War<\/a>, to\u00a0The New York Times<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and other newspapers.<\/p>\n On January 3, 1973, Ellsberg was charged under the\u00a0Espionage Act of 1917<\/a>\u00a0along with other charges of theft and conspiracy, carrying a total maximum sentence of 115 years. Due to governmental misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering, and the defense by\u00a0Leonard Boudin<\/a>\u00a0and Harvard Law School professor\u00a0Charles Nesson<\/a>,\u00a0Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr.<\/a>\u00a0dismissed all charges against Ellsberg on May 11, 1973.<\/p>\n But the NSA decided, following the events of 9\/11\/01, that it has the right to collect info on all Americans and\/or anyone else who lives here, whether they are doing bad things or not, and the objection to it was voiced by Wm. Binney.<\/p>\n He went to several departments to get help putting a stop to it, including the chairs of the House Intelligence Committee, Porter Goss (R-FL) and \u2013 guess who?\u00a0 You got it: Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).\u00a0 This was in 2001-2002, after the events of 9\/11\/01.<\/p>\n From the article: So it was a total violation of the Constitution, not counting the Electronic [Communications] Privacy Act, the [Cyberspace] Electronic Security Act [CESA], all those things, and all the laws covering FCC regulations, covering telecoms. …<\/p>\n So what does Diane say?<\/strong><\/p>\n So Diane says, “They have gone rogue, you know.” That was her point, that she thought they were going rogue.<\/p>\n So what did she do?<\/strong><\/p>\n She took it to Porter Goss (R-Fla.) and Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who were the chair and ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee at the time. They already bought into the program and told her to go talk to Gen. Hayden, which she did. …<\/p>\n Your intention — why did you go to Diane? What did you think maybe could happen with Congress?<\/strong><\/p>\n Well, the Intelligence Committees were created out of the Church Committee investigations back in the ’70s. Those, as well as the FISA Court, they were created to prevent the intelligence community from spying on U.S. citizens. That was the whole intent from the beginning. It was their job to stop this, and so that’s why I went there. \u2013 article.<\/p>\n Totally rogue? Per this recent interview with Pat Robertson of CBN, the television arm of the 700 Club, the goal of the NSA is total population control.<\/p>\n