Peter dykstra of the daily climate. First, we go to utah. And just to have this opportunity in utah, in our home state, because we could have gone to california or another state am a that we are from utah and that is huge. We are pioneers. Awesome. Just weeks after samesex couples in utah began exchanging marriage vows, the u. S. Supreme court stays a decision from a federal judge that had cleared the way for the marriages. We will speak to a just married couple. There union is in legal limbo. We will look at how the koch raised money and an attempt to sway the 2012 election. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. One of the great mysteries of the vietnam war era has been solved. In 1971, group of peace activists broke into an fbi office in pennsylvania and lifted files that helped reveal the fbis elaborate program of illegally spying on political groups. A documents, given to journalists at the time, provide
Kind of informing was taking place. They were untrained informers. March 8, 1971, the breakin. When did J Edgar Hoover die . May, 1972. Here is some video from the New York Times website. It is by an outfit called retro report that has done a little documentary. It is the greatest heist you have never heard of and one of the most important. Last night, someone broke into the fbi offices, stole some records and mailed copies around to several newspapers. Those records would help bring an end to J Edgar Hoovers secret activities within the fbi. He ordered his agents not only to expose new left groups, but to take action against them, to neutralize them. Many americans were tapped, bug, had their mail open by the cia and fbi. The burglars were never caught. The details have remained a mystery until now. How did you find out about all this . Two different points. At the very beginning and then many years later. The first connection i had was that i was the first reporter to receive and wri
Night, J Edgar Hoovers fbi operated in total secrecy. Americans didnt really know what the fbi was doing, that there was a public fbi and a secret fbi. Everything changed. What one thing do you remember that bothered you the most when you found out about the secret fbi . Can i name two . First, one is from the first set of stolen file that i received when i was a reporter at the Washington Post. It was the very first document. It was an instruction to agents to act in such a way that they would enhance the paranoia and also make people think there was an fbi agent behind every mailbox. That was a really striking thing to find, the kind of thing that most people would not think was placed in a file. That did have a shocking effect when he came public. There are so many things that are very interesting and that the public found very upsetting. I think in the end what i found most upsetting, was the massive surveillance in two ways. First, the massive surveillance that was taking place in
Americans didnt really know what the fbi was doing, that there was a public fbi and a secret fbi. Everything changed. What one thing the euro number do you remember that bothered you when you found out about the secret fbi . Can i name two . First, one is from the first set of stolen file that i received when i was a reporter at the washington post. It was the very first document. It was an instruction to agents to act in such a way that they would enhance the paranoia and also make people think there was an fbi agent behind every mailbox. That was a really striking thing to find, the kind of thing that was people would not think placed in a file. That did have a shocking effect when he came public. There are so many things that are very interesting and that the public found very upsetting. Foundk in the end what i most upsetting was the massive surveillance in two ways. First, the massive surveillance that was taking place in black communities. They documented what was taking place in
Peter dykstra of the daily climate. First, we go to utah. And just to have this opportunity in utah, in our home state, because we could have gone to california or another state am a that we are from utah and that is huge. We are pioneers. Awesome. Just weeks after samesex couples in utah began exchanging marriage vows, the u. S. Supreme court stays a decision from a federal judge that had cleared the way for the marriages. We will speak to a just married couple. There union is in legal limbo. We will look at how the koch raised money and an attempt to sway the 2012 election. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. One of the great mysteries of the vietnam war era has been solved. In 1971, group of peace activists broke into an fbi office in pennsylvania and lifted files that helped reveal the fbis elaborate program of illegally spying on political groups. A documents, given to journalists at the time, provide