The roots of Surveillance America
Foundation for Economic Education
by Wendy McElroy
11/22/11
How did intelligence-gathering in the United States become centralized and opposed to civil liberties? The answer lies in war, fear-mongering, political ambition, and the career path of the most pragmatic bureaucrat America has produced: J. Edgar Hoover (1895?1972), the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). A supremely political animal, Hoover occupied high office for nearly 50 years, during which he was instrumental in laying the foundation for a national security state...
http://tinyurl.com/7nbjbg9
http://www.mindcontrol-blog.com:8091/helma/twoday/mindcontrol/search?q=national+security
http://www.mindcontrol-blog.com:8091/helma/twoday/mindcontrol/search?q=surveillance
http://www.mindcontrol-blog.com:8091/helma/twoday/mindcontrol/search?q=intelligence
http://www.mindcontrol-blog.com:8091/helma/twoday/mindcontrol/search?q=Federal+Bureau+of+Investigation
http://www.mindcontrol-blog.com:8091/helma/twoday/mindcontrol/search?q=civil+liberties
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by Wendy McElroy
11/22/11
How did intelligence-gathering in the United States become centralized and opposed to civil liberties? The answer lies in war, fear-mongering, political ambition, and the career path of the most pragmatic bureaucrat America has produced: J. Edgar Hoover (1895?1972), the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). A supremely political animal, Hoover occupied high office for nearly 50 years, during which he was instrumental in laying the foundation for a national security state...
http://tinyurl.com/7nbjbg9
http://www.mindcontrol-blog.com:8091/helma/twoday/mindcontrol/search?q=national+security
http://www.mindcontrol-blog.com:8091/helma/twoday/mindcontrol/search?q=surveillance
http://www.mindcontrol-blog.com:8091/helma/twoday/mindcontrol/search?q=intelligence
http://www.mindcontrol-blog.com:8091/helma/twoday/mindcontrol/search?q=Federal+Bureau+of+Investigation
http://www.mindcontrol-blog.com:8091/helma/twoday/mindcontrol/search?q=civil+liberties
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Starmail - 28. Nov, 08:50