Us Government Against Its Own Citizens
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US Government Against Its Own Citizens 30 Flint water crisis EPA knew about lead contamination for 18 months did not warn residents
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On June 24, 2015—18 months after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) first confirmed dangerous lead levels in Flint, Michigan’s drinking w…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 29 Patriot Act Section 215 bulk collection of phone records of every American ruled illegal in 2020
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET For seven years, the U.S. government collected the phone records of every American—call times, durations, and numbers dialed—under a single, classifi…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 28 FISA Court secret court approved mass surveillance warrants almost never denied a request
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 1979 and 2023, the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) approved 41,654 government surveillance requests and denied just 12 in…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 27 Pentagon Papers government knew Vietnam War was unwinnable from 1967 continued for 8 more years
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In October 1966, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara commissioned a classified study—later known as the Pentagon Papers—that concluded the Vietnam War …
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 26 Iran-Contra Reagan administration sold weapons to Iran funded Nicaraguan Contras lied to Congress
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On October 5, 1986, a U.S. cargo plane carrying 70 military-grade AK-47 rifles, 100,000 rounds of ammunition, and other weapons was shot down over Ni…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 25 Crack cocaine epidemic Gary Webb documented CIA connection to crack supply chain career destroyed di
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1996, the San Jose Mercury News published a series by investigative journalist Gary Webb revealing that the CIA had knowledge of—and in some cases…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 24 CHAOS program CIA compiled files on 7200 American citizens and 1000 domestic organizations
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 1967 and 1973, the CIA’s CHAOS program compiled files on 7,200 American citizens and 1,000 domestic organizations—without warrants, without s…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 23 NSA PRISM program mass surveillance of American citizens communications Snowden revealed in 2013
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On June 5, 2013, The Guardian published a top-secret court order revealing that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) had, for seven years, compell…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 22 Operation Garden Plot domestic military contingency plan for civilian population control active sinc
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1972, the U.S. Army’s Civil Disturbance Orientation Guide explicitly listed "dissident elements" to be monitored under Operation Garden Plot, incl…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 21 COINTELPRO against AIM American Indian Movement leaders surveilled infiltrated several died in suspi
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On June 26, 1975, two FBI agents and one American Indian Movement (AIM) member were killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Sout…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 20 Unit 731 data US government gave Japanese war criminals immunity in exchange for human experiment da
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET In 1947, the U.S. government granted immunity from war crimes prosecution to Shiro Ishii, the commander of Japan’s Unit 731—a biological warfare prog…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 19 Holmesburg Prison experiments prisoners used as test subjects for pharmaceutical and chemical compan
THE HOLMESBURG PRISON EXPERIMENTS: THE DOCUMENTED TRUTH THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 1951 and 1974, at least 80 pharmaceutical and chemical companies—including Johnson &a…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 18 Green Run Hanford Site deliberately released radioactive iodine over Washington and Oregon in 1949
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On December 2–3, 1949, the U.S. government deliberately released 7,800 curies of radioactive iodine-131 from the Hanford Site in Washington state—eno…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 17 Willowbrook hepatitis experiments mentally disabled children deliberately infected with hepatitis fo
THE WILLOWBROOK HEPATITIS EXPERIMENTS: THE DOCUMENTED TRUTH THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 1956 and 1971, researchers at Willowbrook State School in New York deliberately i…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 16 Navajo uranium miners deliberately not told of radiation risks used as labor in nuclear weapons prog
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 1944 and 1986, the U.S. government and private mining companies employed at least 3,000 Navajo men to extract uranium from the Navajo Nation—…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 15 Operation Midnight Climax CIA ran safe houses where unwitting subjects were given LSD while agents o
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 1955 and 1965, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operated at least three safe houses in San Francisco and New York where prostitutes, hir…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 14 Stanford Prison Experiment government funded study on prisoner abuse stopped after 6 days shaped det
THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT WAS NEVER AN EXPERIMENT—IT WAS A PERFORMANCE The U.S. Office of Naval Research, which funded the Stanford Prison Experiment, received a final report …
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 13 Henrietta Lacks cells taken without consent in 1951 became most used cell line in medical history fa
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1951, doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took cells from Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman with cervical cancer, without her knowledge or consent. Tho…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 12 Agent Orange US veterans exposed VA denied connection to illnesses for 15 years despite internal kno
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1969, a U.S. National Institutes of Health study confirmed that Agent Orange—a herbicide sprayed over Vietnam—caused birth defects in laboratory a…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 11 Atomic veterans 400000 soldiers exposed to nuclear tests without protection or informed consent
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 1945 and 1962, the United States government ordered 400,000 of its own soldiers to stand within miles—sometimes mere yards—of nuclear detonat…