Ah, I must correct myself. On 10/4/14, 1:25 AM, Gregory Foster wrote: > The James Bamford article sent along by coderman is excellent. > > The Intercept (Oct 2) - "The NSA and Me" by James Bamford [ @WashAuthor ]: > https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/02/the-nsa-and-me/ > > I just noticed the article links to an interesting document. > > Rockefeller Commission Report (RCR, 1977) > "REPORT ON INQUIRY INTO CIA-RELATED ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE ACTIVITIES" > http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1304974-report-on-inquiry-into-cia-related-electronic.html#document/p1 > >> A 1977 Justice Department report, obtained by reporter James >> Bamford in 1981 under the Freedom of Information Act, investigating >> criminal surveillance operations conducted by the CIA and NSA. > > In 1975, the executive branch under President Gerald Ford initiated > its own investigation of the CIA's and the NSA's activities in > parallel with the larger committees in the legislature. The report > Bamford shared is a (redacted) product of the President's Commission. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_President%27s_Commission_on_CIA_Activities_within_the_United_States
A quick glance at the real RCR shows it is a very different document: http://history-matters.com/archive/contents/church/contents_church_reports_rockcomm.htm Instead, here's Bamford from the article: > The secret investigation grew out of the final report by the Rockefeller > Commission, a panel that had been set up by President Gerald Ford to parallel > the Church Committee. Issued on June 6, 1975, the report noted that both the > NSA and CIA had engaged in questionable and possibly illegal electronic > surveillance. As a result, Attorney General Edward Levi established a secret > internal task force to look into the potential for criminal prosecution. > Focusing particularly on NSA, the task force probed more deeply into domestic > eavesdropping than any part of the executive branch had ever done before. > > I had heard rumors from several sources about such a probe, so I thought it > would be worth requesting a copy of the file under FOIA. Nevertheless, I was > surprised when the documents, with relatively few redactions, turned up at my > door 10 months later. They included a lengthy, detailed “Report on Inquiry > into CIA-Related Surveillance Activities” that laid out the investigation in > stark detail, as well as a shorter draft “prosecutive summary” evaluating the > potential for criminal prosecution. I was shocked that the Justice Department > had released them to me without notifying the NSA. An official at Justice > later told me that it was standard procedure not to notify the object of a > criminal investigation (think John Gotti) once it is completed and requested > under FOIA. gf -- Gregory Foster || [email protected] @gregoryfoster <> http://entersection.com/
