Originally Posted by tony286

its not blowing a whistle when they have been doing since 1975 and you can find it in a simple google search. Back then it was telegrams also.

In the fall of 1975, when a Senate select committee chaired by Frank Church and a House committee chaired by Otis Pike were investigating abuses of power by the CIA and FBI, Congresswoman Bella Abzug, the loaded pistol from New York (she had introduced a resolution to impeach Richard Nixon on her first day in office in 1971) dared turned her own House Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights to a new subject: the National Security Agency, and two twin government surveillance projects she had learned about codenamed ?SHAMROCK? and ?MINARET.? They had monitored both the phone calls and telegrams of American citizens for decades.
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