The CIA has a history of breaking our laws.

Little-known documents now being made public detail illegal and scandalous activities by the CIA more than 30 years ago: wiretapping of journalists, kidnappings, warrantless searches and more.

Among them:

• The "two-year physical confinement" in the mid-1960s of a Soviet defector.
  Assassination plots of foreign leaders, including Fidel Castro.
  
• CIA wiretapping in 1963 of two columnists, Robert Allen and Paul Scott, following a newspaper column in which national security information was disclosed. The wiretapping revealed calls from 12 senators and six representatives but did not indicate the source of the leak.
  
• The "personal surveillances" in 1972 of muckraking columnist Jack Anderson and staff members, including Les Whitten and Brit Hume. The surveillance involved watching the targets but no wiretapping. The memo said it followed a series of "tilt toward Pakistan" stories by Anderson.
  
• The personal surveillance of Washington Post reporter Mike Getler over three months beginning in late 1971. No specific stories are mentioned in the memo.
  
• CIA screening programs, beginning in the early 1950s and lasting until 1973, in which mail coming into the United States was reviewed and "in some cases opened" from the Soviet Union and China.

I guess those of us who have never really trusted our government are not so paranoid now are we?

This is why our government needs much more oversight in the future. No more "the ends justifies the means" mentality anymore.

If we are going to serve as an inspiration to other countries, which I truly believe most Americans believe we are, we must be above reproach in our methods. If we get down in the mud with the pigs we cannot suddenly stand up and declare them disgusting. That my friends is hypocrisy.