he thought this is a strange thing for fbi to be doing and also what is cointelpro? if it hadn't been for his persistence, would never have discovered in the end what was the most important findings from the media file. >> as you finished your book telling this history, and the survivors came forward, new revelations from edward snowden. do you end up feeling that what, things haven't changed so much? how did you see that? >> one of the things that i ended up feeling was that despite the oversight that was officially established as a result of the media burglary and then the congressional investigations that took place, that oversight really hasn't been functioning so well in recent years. and 40 years later, we're also learning information that seems to be pretty important for the public to know from another burglar, this one from inside an agency. brown: all right. the new book is the burglary. betty medsger, thank you so much. >> thank you. ifill: >> ifill: finally tonight, a master of capturing landscape and meditation in verse. charles wright was recently named

church committee preachers committee given the cointelpro surveillance that we know took place decades ago with the capabilities that the n.s.a. has now and the f.b.i. has now do you think that this goes beyond spying on most americans not that we should be more has that that i'm just wondering what your views are on that absolutely i think there's the n.s.a. at this time can spy on anybody and basically any form of communication not just email text messages and you know back in the old days that used to be that knew you'd go and sweep for a bug and everything like that and you'd say ok there's a bug there but now with the technology being it's all done to satellites and it's all done remotely so they can literally spy on anybody and when they talk about probable cause in the files of court approves ninety nine percent of all the warm sort of presented to them so there's and that's a pretty high you know pretty high success rate eg dismay it makes no sense that ninety nine percent of the warrants would be approved by the fathers of course so as they can spawn any form of communication