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Looking back at the Church Committee

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 ...
Defense One

The US Needs a New Church Committee

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 ...
American Enterprise Institute

Real Church Committee Advises Jim Jordan’s “New Church Committee” to Change Course

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 ...
The Hill

I worked for the Church Committee — what Jim Jordan is leading bears no resemblance

Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and partisan firebrand Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) pushed through a party-line vote to create a House committee designed to investigate the Biden ...
New York Magazine

Trump Allies’ Post-Raid Probe Won’t Be Anything Like the Church Committee

In their fury at the FBI for conducting a raid at Mar-a-Lago even as the agency lets Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden run free, some of Donald Trump’s allies are citing the Church Committee as ...
Politico

Jim Jordan’s ‘Weaponization Committee’ Is Misfiring

Last month, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted narrowly along partisan lines to establish a Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, chaired by ...
The Nation

Why We Need a New Church Committee to Fix Our Broken Intelligence System

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 ...
Democracy Now

Church Committee Counsel Frederick Schwarz on Corporate Involvement in Government Spying

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 ...
The New York Times

Read the Church Committee Open Letter

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 ...
The Washington Post

Former Church Committee chief counsel: ‘New technology adds a lot to government power’

Today, Frederick A.O. (“Fritz”) Schwarz, Jr. is chief counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School. But in the 70s, Schwarz served as the chief counsel for the Church Committee -- a ...
Yahoo

Looking back at the Church Committee

Back in the post-Watergate era, Church and his colleagues weren’t concerned with international terrorism. But there was an overseas connection to Chile. The committee was a reaction to revelations ...