Lennard writes: "After years of denial, the CIA finally admitted with the release of a document to Foreign Policy that a surveillance file had been kept on Noam Chomsky."
Noam Chomsky. (photo: Reuters/Jorge Dan)
Chomsky: My CIA File
14 August 13
s we noted Tuesday, after years of denial, the CIA finally admitted with the release of a document to Foreign Policy that a surveillance file had been kept on Noam Chomsky, especially during his days as a robust anti-war activist in the 1970's. The CIA admitted too to having wiped Chomsky's file from Langley's record - a legally tenuous action.
Following the revelation, I reached out to the MIT Professor. He he made clear that while the government may have acted unlawfully with regards to their covert surveillance of his actions, such activity is barely a drop in the pond of today's expansive surveillance state. He wrote:
The only interest, as far as I can see, is that the CIA is barred from domestic surveillance, and that they're destroying files. Who knows how many and which. But by today's standards of government malpractice, it's a minor peccadillo.
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