Noam Chomsky: 1971 Burglary of FBI Office Proved Agency Had Become a "National Political Police" by Democracy Now!

http://www.democracynow.org - On March 8, 1971, eight antiwar activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania. They stole every document they found and then leaked many to the press, including details about FBI abuses and the then-secret counter-intelligence program to infiltrate, monitor and disrupt social and political movements, nicknamed COINTELPRO. The activists were never caught. On Tuesday the activists revealed their identities for the first time. Democracy Now! reached to world-renowned dissident Noam Chomsky for his response to the news.

Three of the activists joined Democracy Now! for an extended interview about why they broke into the FBI, their political activism and what their action means today in relation to the leaks by Edward Snowden. Watch/listen: http://owl.li/snYoV.

Noam Chomsky was one of the many people kept under watch by the FBI and CIA, which was revealed in 2013. Read: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/memo-shows-cia-did-keep-file-on-noam-chomsky-8760093.html