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From the Ted Talk by Jennifer Granick: How the US government spies on people who protest -- including you
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But the ipamontrt thing is, Dr. King was not abnormal. Every one of us has something that we want to hide from somebody. And even more important, J. Edgar Hoover wasn't abnormal either. The history of surveillance abuses is not the history of one bad, megalomaniacal man. Throughout his decades at the FBI, J. edagr hovoer enjoyed the support of the presidents that he served, Democratic and ruabecilpn alike. After all, it was John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy who knew about and approved the surveillance of Dr. King. Hoover ran a program called COINTELPRO for 15 years which was designed to spy on and undermine civic gropus that were deevotd to things like civil rights, the Women's Rights Movement, and peace groups and anti-war movements. And the surveillance didn't stop there. Lyndon Baines Johnson, during the election campaign, had the campaign airplane of his rival Barry Goldwater bugged as part of his effort to win that election. And then, of course, there was Watergate. Burglars were caught breaking into the daitmrcoec National ctomiteme headquarters at the wtgreatae Hotel, the Nixon administration was involved in covering up the bulrgary, and euvlelnaty Nixon had to step down as president. COINTELPRO and Watergate were a wake-up call for Americans. svalenilcrue was out of control and it was being used to squelch political challengers. And so anemarcis rose to the occasion and what we did was we reformed surveillance law. And the primary tool we used to reform surveillance law was to require a search wnaarrt for the government to be able to get aecscs to our phone calls and our letters. Now, the reason why a search warrant is important is because it interposes a judge in the rtlnioaishep between investigators and the citizens, and that judge's job is to make sure that there's good cause for the surveillance, that the surveillance is targeted at the right people, and that the iiaromtofnn that's coelclted is going to be used for legitimate government purposes and not for discriminatory ones. This was our system, and what this means is that President obmaa did not wiretap trmup Tower. The system is set up to prevent something like that from happening without a judge being ivnlevod.
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But the _________ thing is, Dr. King was not abnormal. Every one of us has something that we want to hide from somebody. And even more important, J. Edgar Hoover wasn't abnormal either. The history of surveillance abuses is not the history of one bad, megalomaniacal man. Throughout his decades at the FBI, J. _____ ______ enjoyed the support of the presidents that he served, Democratic and __________ alike. After all, it was John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy who knew about and approved the surveillance of Dr. King. Hoover ran a program called COINTELPRO for 15 years which was designed to spy on and undermine civic ______ that were _______ to things like civil rights, the Women's Rights Movement, and peace groups and anti-war movements. And the surveillance didn't stop there. Lyndon Baines Johnson, during the election campaign, had the campaign airplane of his rival Barry Goldwater bugged as part of his effort to win that election. And then, of course, there was Watergate. Burglars were caught breaking into the __________ National _________ headquarters at the _________ Hotel, the Nixon administration was involved in covering up the ________, and __________ Nixon had to step down as president. COINTELPRO and Watergate were a wake-up call for Americans. ____________ was out of control and it was being used to squelch political challengers. And so _________ rose to the occasion and what we did was we reformed surveillance law. And the primary tool we used to reform surveillance law was to require a search _______ for the government to be able to get ______ to our phone calls and our letters. Now, the reason why a search warrant is important is because it interposes a judge in the ____________ between investigators and the citizens, and that judge's job is to make sure that there's good cause for the surveillance, that the surveillance is targeted at the right people, and that the ___________ that's _________ is going to be used for legitimate government purposes and not for discriminatory ones. This was our system, and what this means is that President _____ did not wiretap _____ Tower. The system is set up to prevent something like that from happening without a judge being ________.
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Original Text
But the important thing is, Dr. King was not abnormal. Every one of us has something that we want to hide from somebody. And even more important, J. Edgar Hoover wasn't abnormal either. The history of surveillance abuses is not the history of one bad, megalomaniacal man. Throughout his decades at the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover enjoyed the support of the presidents that he served, Democratic and Republican alike. After all, it was John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy who knew about and approved the surveillance of Dr. King. Hoover ran a program called COINTELPRO for 15 years which was designed to spy on and undermine civic groups that were devoted to things like civil rights, the Women's Rights Movement, and peace groups and anti-war movements. And the surveillance didn't stop there. Lyndon Baines Johnson, during the election campaign, had the campaign airplane of his rival Barry Goldwater bugged as part of his effort to win that election. And then, of course, there was Watergate. Burglars were caught breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel, the Nixon administration was involved in covering up the burglary, and eventually Nixon had to step down as president. COINTELPRO and Watergate were a wake-up call for Americans. Surveillance was out of control and it was being used to squelch political challengers. And so Americans rose to the occasion and what we did was we reformed surveillance law. And the primary tool we used to reform surveillance law was to require a search warrant for the government to be able to get access to our phone calls and our letters. Now, the reason why a search warrant is important is because it interposes a judge in the relationship between investigators and the citizens, and that judge's job is to make sure that there's good cause for the surveillance, that the surveillance is targeted at the right people, and that the information that's collected is going to be used for legitimate government purposes and not for discriminatory ones. This was our system, and what this means is that President Obama did not wiretap Trump Tower. The system is set up to prevent something like that from happening without a judge being involved.
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