The article I read, found here, describes a burglary that occurred in the early seventies which exposed the FBI spying on protest groups. The FBI had apparently been spying on reform groups since at least 1956 and even went so far as to send an anonymous letter to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. threatening to expose his extramarital affairs if he didn't commit suicide. It appears the U.S. government has been spying on its own citizens since far before the Patriot Act.
I'm not actually that surprised. Perhaps a bit outraged, but not surprised. It seems to me that when our government is in the midst of a cold war, they will naturally try to minimize the amount of controversial free-speech that takes place in their country. After the cold war ended, I don't see any possible way in which our government - or any government for that matter - would give up all of that control it had over us.
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