Church and Pike Commissions: Difference between revisions

''I've tried to document the ways in which people have been brought down before, and he last time we really cleaned house and the intelligence community was in the mid-seventies with the '''Church & Pike commissions'''. And we learned a ton about [https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-07/fbi-los-angeles-times-jean-seberg-50-years these untraceable ways] that a Goliath--which sometimes is emergent and sometimes conscious--can take somebody down and you don't realize that the story that got written about you [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtj3GYB3cTA was planted by the government]. And if that sounds crazy to you, you actually have a problem because this is fully documented. There's no conspiracy theory. This is “conspiracy fact”. What we don't know is what happened since [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee Church]/[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_Committee Pike].

''And this is why, for example, with the [https://fas.org/irp/congress/2018_cr/nunes-memo.pdf Nunes memo]—I think it's completely a partisan stunt, it's a partisan stunt that may actually have an underlying reality as well—those two things are not one--you can't say, "well, because it's a partisan stunt, then I don't want to investigate."

So there's this thing where Eisenhower said: “beware of the military-industrial complex” in his final farewell address. I would say that this needs to be updated to be aware of what I call [[Technology Intelligence Media (TIM)|TIM: Technology, Intelligence, and Media]].

''And there's something about the fact that all of our personal information is housed on the servers of a few large tech companies. The intelligence community has not been vigorously, vigorously, vigorously investigated for a very long time, and media is in some sort of relationship to both of those that we don't understand. My real concern is that the people who threatened the dominant “[[Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN)|Gated Institutional Narrative]]”, have to beware of TIM: technology, intelligence, and media working behind the scenes in ways that we don't understand, which is the expectation, post [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee Church]/[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_Committee Pike] commissions. That is, the default should be that this is the way the world normally works, that ''wasn't'' an anomaly, and if you believe that that doesn't happen anymore--absolutely--then the burden of proof is on you. If you want to take it up, please. But otherwise we have to imagine that fundamentally we're all vulnerable to having all of our email in a Gmail account, all of our personal interactions in our Facebook account, what we are doing with direct messages, being read by Twitter engineers. You know, I don't love James O'Keefe, but [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgyPpsX2B0g he seems to have unearthed some stuff at Twitter]. We should be very, very worried.