As we noted Tuesday, after years of denial, the CIA finally admitted with the release of a document to Foreign Policy that a surveillance file had been kept on Noam Chomsky, especially during his days as a robust anti-war activist in the 1970's. The CIA admitted too to having wiped Chomsky's file from Langley's record -- a legally tenuous action.

Following the revelation, I reached out to the MIT Professor. He he made clear that while the government may have acted unlawfully with regards to their covert surveillance of his actions, such activity is barely a drop in the pond of today's expansive surveillance state. He wrote:

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