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power, which was granted by Congress in the good faith that the
government would not trade off the Bill of Rights in order to
pursue political objectives.

It was a worst-case disaster.

Even after investigating, Congress basically yawned: "The CISPES case was
an aberration, it was lower-level FBI employees who got carried away by
their national security mandate. It was not politically motivated"
--- The Senate Select Intelligence Committee.

*   "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*   
*   ...something much more sinister was at work. In his carefully documented
*   analysis of the CISPES matter, 'Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI: the
*   Covert War Against the Central American Movement', Boston writer Ross
*   Gelbspan argues that a much more extensive conspiracy may have been at
*   work. Far from being a low-level operation, Gelbspan reports, hundreds
*   of documents in the CISPES file had been initialed by Oliver "Buck"
*   Revell, then the number two official in the FBI. [Further evidence
*   implicates the CIA]

Congress is unable to investigate the FBI, let alone the NSA.

#   "U.S. Recruited Ex-Rebel Despite Links to Deaths, Report Says"
#   By Tim Golden, The New York Times, January 21, 1997
#   
#   A former Salvadoran guerrilla commander was recruited by American officials
#   as a paid informer and allowed to resettle in the United States despite
#   intelligence information from half a dozen rebels that he had planned a
#   1985 attack in El Salvador in which SIX AMERICANS and seven others were
#   killed, newly released Government reports show.

It doesn't matter to our government if Americans get killed.

Whatever the president wants, he gets