Neo Stasi?

The Intercept reported on July 1st, 2016, Secret Rules Make it Easy for the FBI to Spy on Journalists

What are the FBI's goals with a deep invasion of journalist privacy? Obviously, it silences sources and whistle-blowers…Neo-Stasi tactics?

The following is both dire and prophetic from Senator Frank Church of Idaho and the Church Committee Report of 1975--over forty years ago:

"The United States government has perfected a technological capability that enables us to monitor the messages that go through the air...at the same time, 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.

...the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology...

I don't want to see this country ever go across that 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."

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