29. Spying

The U.S. Constitution failed to specifically restrict government agencies from unlawful activities, and to hold violators personally responsible for their actions, as was the case in the private sector.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, established within the U.S. Justice Department in 1924, was initially restricted to investigate violations of Federal Laws, but in 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt verbally authorized the FBI to spy on political activitists who were within their legal rights. In the ensuing years, it engaged in illegal wiretaps, mail openings, and break-ins, and infiltrated numerous groups having opposing views from prevailing U.S. doctrine. Nobody in the agency was ever brought to justice.

Maquette University history professor Athan Theoharis stated in his 1978 book "Spying on Americans" that the problem worsened after World War II with the start of the Cold War;

"Obsessed over the possibility of foreign-directed espionage and subversion, increasingly after 1945 congressional and public opinion leaders accepted the expansion of the FBI's, CIA's and NSA's surveillance role."

Internal memo's indicated illegal activites by the agencies, but they were overlooked by the Presidentially-appointed head of the Justice Department, the Attorney General, and more than one President used the agencies for personal political gain. Reform was unlikely, and prosecution by the AG was most remote.

Boston University historian Robert Dailek said President Lyndon Johnson had the FBI wiretap his Vice President, Hubert Humphrey, in 1968, to obtain his private views on the Vietnam War.

Former FBI Associate Director William Sullivan confessed upon reviewing the record in 1975 that fundamental questions of right and wrong were never raised in regard to spying;

"During the ten years I was on the (internal security) board, never once did I hear anybody, including myself, raise the question `is this course of action which we have agreed upon lawful, is it legal, is it ethical, is it moral?"

In the 1990's, the FBI, like Secret Government agencies before it, established operations in foreign countries, including Russia, in a self-expanding role that fit into President George Bush's description of a "new world order", and added another spy agency to the foundation of a World Empire.

With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, government agents are prosecuted for illegal activity.

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