Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 27, 1975, Senator Frank Church led a new Senate committee formed to investigate allegations of U.S. government spying ...

Editors Note: “ Rethinking Intelligence ” is a project of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law that examines the contemporary U.S. intelligence community, which fellow ...

After fielding yet another media call about the supposed “dismantling” of the CIA by the Church Committee, I feel moved to systematically address the neoconservative assumptions that dominate the ...

Rep. Jim Jordan is one of the most powerful members of Congress. He chairs both the House Judiciary Committee and its new subcommittee on the “Weaponization of the Federal Government.” House ...

Aides to the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities, created in 1975, wrote to Representative Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican leading the new ...

Christopher Hayes, the Nation’s DC editor, has a long essay out explaining the history of the Church Committee, which was one of the most remarkable products in the history of any Democratic system of ...

In the 1970s, the Church Committee, led by Senator Frank Church, conducted a major investigation of the country’s intelligence agencies. During its investigation the Church Committee uncovered that ...

Forty years after the creation of the landmark Senate committee to investigative abuses at U.S. spy agencies, ex-staffers on the Church Committee say it’s time for a similar panel to once again ...

As Senator Feinstein has revealed, the CIA will not only stall but even spy on Congress to impede its investigation of wrongdoing. (Reuters/Larry Downing) By signing up, you confirm that you are over ...

On this day in 1975, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to create a special 11-member panel to probe abuses by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The committee received nine months to do its work.

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