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Lectures in History

Federal Surveillance & Civil Rights

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

News, History, Politics

4.2737 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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American University lecturer Aaron Bell teaches a class about privacy laws and federal surveillance of civil rights leaders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Next, on lectures and history, American University lecturer Erin Bell teaches a class about privacy laws and federal surveillance of civil rights leaders.

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He describes the mid-20th century creation of the counterintelligence program, often called Co-Intel Pro, and

1:13.1

their tracking and infiltrating of domestic political organizations.

1:17.3

His class is about 45 minutes.

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Well, welcome to class, everybody.

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Today we're going to talk about history of government surveillance.

1:28.9

And the sort of central question I want to think about today is, can intelligence agencies

1:34.5

operate in a democratic society and be successful in protecting the government and its citizens

1:40.3

while also upholding those same citizens' rights, especially the right to dissent.

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In other words, are liberty and security compatible? No doubt there is a need for intelligence

1:55.7

communities to operate. Threats exist from foreign and domestic sources. Those threats are real.

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They've been real throughout U.S. history, and they can come from across the political spectrum.

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But for over a century, in addition to taking action against real threats to the lives

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