ACLU Documents Widespread Police and Military Domestic Spying

The ACLU of Washington state has recently released a series of government files that document widespread and coordinated police and military surveillance of law-abiding U.S. citizens in the Puget Sound area over the course of the last five years: http://www.aclu-wa.org/public-documents

The national ACLU has also been following some of these disturbing trends of unconstitutional spying across the country: http://www.aclu.org/spy-files

Unexpurgated Pike Report: Excerpts

The Pike report on CIA wrongdoing is hard enough to come across. Even worse: it is essentially impossible to purchase a copy of the Unexpurgated Pike Report, published by McGraw Hill in 1992.

So I'm putting an excerpt online here, which provides the 2 prefaces, the table of contents, a few details on the CIA and FBI's domestic intelligence practices in the 1960s, and a hint at the difficulties Congress faced in trying to hold the national security state accountable to any sort of rule of law.