"It Was Time to Do More Than Protest": 1971 Burglars Who Exposed FBI Spying Reveal Their Names 1/2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ม.ค. 2014
- www.democracynow.org - One of the great mysteries of the Vietnam War era has been solved. On March 8, 1971, a group of activists -- including a cabdriver, a day care director and two professors -- broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania. They stole every document they found and then leaked many to the press, including details about FBI abuses and the then-secret counter-intelligence program to infiltrate, monitor and disrupt social, political movements, nicknamed COINTELPRO. Calling themselves, the Citizen's Commission to Investigate the FBI, no one was ever caught for the break-in. The burglars' identities remained a secret until this week when they finally came forward to take credit for the caper that changed history. Today we are joined by three of them -- John Raines, Bonnie Raines and Keith Forsyth; their attorney, David Kairys; and Betty Medsger, the former Washington Post reporter who first broke the story of the stolen FBI documents in 1971 and has now revealed the burglars' identities in her new book, "The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI."
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How are there fewer than 10,000 views... This is so important!
If there was something like justice in this country, they'd get medals but medals would be wasted on them. They're not the kind of people who care about medals.
A medal is a reward for an act which is not reward enough in its own doing.
courageous and beautiful people.
Courageous individuals. Unjust laws should be broken.
They really stood up for their own country as Home of the Brave! Truth will always prevail. What's in the dark will come to light.
They definitely had to be courageous people to successfully take on J. Edgar Hoover who was the most feared and revered man at the time!
I borrowed the video documentary from the Providence Public Library . Takes me back to those nightmare years 1965-1972
Very courageous people! Everyone should know their story!
A very very bold act.
How does this only have 10K views?!?
It's a tragedy there are so many sheep.
Stone was not the first and only whistleblower.
The weather underground
Savvy Fella Hoover was.
A key to understand the Snowden case in this video:
16:00 "activate the paranoia by making the activists think that there was a FBI agent behind each one of them". This is one of 2 the keys to understand the Snowden limited (setup) hangout. Greenwald's relationship with EBay founder Pierre Omidyar is an obvious indication as he is a NSA asset. Also, Snowden came out to say "mission accomplished.." after releasing less than 1% of the documents... and "I still work for the NSA, they just don't know it..."
The second key to explain the organized Snowden leaks is that of a management technique: that consists in discussing and directing to find a solution. This explains the national debate. Obama is a bad manager. I can hear him from here saying: "ok, now I heard you, and we'll do it the way I was saying before".
LOL! Somebodies had too much to think!
The Church Committee investigated the cia ( CIA COINTELPRO COVERT OPERATION) fbi and its
cointelpro operation, nsa for its spying. NEWS IN 1975
I remember " tutu" coming out wanting more troops, my idea of sending him more money and troops amounted to the recommissioning of the enola gay.
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