Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights
 Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights(Congressional hearing)   | |
|---|---|
| Extinction | 1976 |
| Membership | •  Bella Abzug•  Leon J.Ryan• Sam Steiger •  John Conyers• Clarence J. Brown •  Torbert H. MacDonald• Paul McCloskey Jr • John E. Moss • Michael J. Harrington • Andrew Maguire • Anthony Moffett |
| A 1970s subcommittee on privacy in the House of Representatives targeting the NSA's domestic spying program. | |
The U.S. House Government Operations Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights, chaired by Rep. Bella Abzug,[1][2] was a 1970s subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations.[3][4][5][6][7]
Overview
Mark Ames described it as, after the Pike and Church committees, "Meanwhile, an even more radical subcommittee on privacy in the House, headed by Bella Abzug, targeted the NSA's domestic spying program, subpoenaing government officials and the heads of the major telecoms and cable telex firms—AT&T, ITT, Western Union and RCA. The more the House dug into the NSA's foundations, the more they discovered about the murky extralegal arrangements and deals made between private telecom firms and the National Security State apparatus. In the late 1940s, as the NSA was being formed out of the Army Security Agency and other military signal intelligence branches, Truman's top defense officials cajoled the major US cable telex firms to agree to let the nascent NSA tap into all international communications. Some of the firms were more reluctant than others; all asked for written legal assurances and legislative action, but were given less than they were promised. Everything remained legally murky—promises, but nothing concrete and publicly legalized, like the NSA itself."[8]
Known members
5 of the 11 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Bella Abzug | US Congresswoman who campaigned to expose the US deep state |
| John Conyers | American politician. |
| Torbert Macdonald | Lifetime friend of JFK, on the 1976 Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights. Died in 1976. |
| Pete McCloskey | US Congrssman on the bad side of Mossad, which tried to get rid of him. |
| Leo Ryan | A known critic of the CIA who was murdered in Jonestown, Guyana. |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The first congressman to battle the NSA is dead. No-one noticed, no-one cares. | article | 4 February 2014 | Mark Ames |
References
- ↑ https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015081170196&seq=5
- ↑ https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/sites/default/files/pdf_documents/library/document/0014/21619430.pdf
- ↑ "Government in the Sunshine": Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the ..
- ↑ https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015081169487&seq=3
- ↑ https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015082035349&seq=5
- ↑ https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015081169354&seq=4
- ↑ https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pur1.32754076879463&seq=2
- ↑ The first congressman to battle the NSA is dead. No-one noticed, no-one cares.
