How the US Justice Department started a criminal prosecution against the NSA in 1976

[Walter]

Suspense. And real.
How the US Justice Department started a criminal prosecution against the NSA in 1976.

If the first shock to top officials at the NSA was the discovery that they were being investigated as potential criminals, the second shock was that I had a copy of the top secret file on the investigation

"leave the room – and keep walking!"

“The potential for abuse is awesome,” the committee observed, especially when “checks and balances designed … to assure accountability have not been applied.”
Church Committee

Read the story of James Bamford: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/02/the-nsa-and-me/


The original files which the NSA wants to keep out of public:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1304973/prosecutive-summary.pdf
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documen...rt-on-inquiry-into-cia-related-electronic.pdf


And the NSA today? Much more advanced.