{"id":14121,"date":"2003-01-31T15:43:37","date_gmt":"2003-01-31T19:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=14121"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:36:08","slug":"christopher-pyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2003\/01\/31\/christopher-pyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil liberties expert Christopher Pyle discusses terrorism&#039;s impact on privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Christopher Pyle, who researched the U.S. government&#8217;s domestic spying abuses for Congress in the 1970s, comes to Bates College to discuss terrorism&#8217;s impact on civil liberties in a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, at the Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Avenue. Sponsored by the Dean of the College,\u00a0 the lecture is open to the public at no charge.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College, Pyle has first-hand experience with the conflict between the need to maintain security and the right to privacy. A former Army intelligence officer, he disclosed the existence of a domestic spying campaign that the Pentagon conducted during the 1960s in an effort to quell anti-war activity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Its plainclothes agents infiltrated civil rights protests, misdirected busloads of anti-war demonstrators, set up phony news organizations and engaged in a paranoid effort to prove that communists were stirring up opposition to racial segregation and the war in Vietnam,&#8221; Pyle wrote last November in the Hartford Courant. His op-ed piece sounded alarm bells at the prospect of the military&#8217;s current proposal to screen electronic communications for signs of terrorist activity.<\/p>\n<p>The Army&#8217;s Intelligence and Security Command &#8220;will use high-powered computers to secretly search the e-mail messages, credit-card purchases, phone records and bank statements of hundreds of thousands of people on the chance that they might be associated with, or sympathetic to, terrorists,&#8221; Pyle wrote in the Courant. &#8220;It&#8217;s too early to tell how far the Army will actually go with its plans, but it is not too early to start asking questions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pyle teaches constitutional law and civil liberties at Mount Holyoke. He is the author or co-editor of <em>Extradition, Politics, and Human Rights<\/em> (Temple University Press, 2001), <em>Military Surveillance of Civilian Politics 1967-1970<\/em> (Garland Publishing, 1986) and <em>The President, Congress and the Constitution: Power and Legitimacy in American Politics<\/em> (Free Press, 1984).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hristopher Pyle, who researched the U.S. government&#8217;s domestic spying abuses for Congress in the 1970s, comes to Bates College to discuss terrorism&#8217;s impact on civil liberties in a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, at the Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[11089],"class_list":["post-14121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics","tag-public-health-and-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92599,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14121\/revisions\/92599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}