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When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun
How 16 Senators Accidentally Saved Democracy (Then Watched It Die)
Nearly fifty years later, as Americans grapple with questions about elite corruption, institutional capture, and the weaponization of intelligence agencies, the Church Committee stands as both a beacon of what's possible and a stark reminder of how far we've fallen. The FBI's COINTELPRO program had infiltrated and disrupted civil rights organizations, antiwar groups, and political movements through illegal surveillance, disinformation campaigns, and provocateur operations. This is Hegelian dialectic in action: create the problem (release damaging information about political opponents), generate the reaction (public outrage demanding prosecution), then provide the solution (look here, not at Epstein).
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