A Season of Inquiry Revisited: The Church Committee Confronts America's Spy Agencies
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (725 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0700621474 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Excellent Study of a Senate Select Committee in Action" according to Dr. W. Terry Lindley. A Season of Inquiry Revisited: The Church Committee Confronts America’s Spy Agencies is a reprint of a 1985 book by Lock Johnson, a political scientist who served as a staffer and aid to Frank Church on the Senate committee investigating U.S. intelligence from 1975-76. This volume contains a new Forward and Postscript as well as three appendices containing “US Intelligence Leadership, 19Excellent Study of a Senate Select Committee in Action Dr. W. Terry Lindley A Season of Inquiry Revisited: The Church Committee Confronts America’s Spy Agencies is a reprint of a 1985 book by Lock Johnson, a political scientist who served as a staffer and aid to Frank Church on the Senate committee investigating U.S. intelligence from 1975-76. This volume contains a new Forward and Postscript as well as three appendices containing “US Intelligence Leadership, 1947-2015,” an organizational chart. 7-2015,” an organizational chart
Loch K. He is the author of many books, most recently The Threat on the Horizon: An Inside Account of America's Search for Security After the Cold War.. Johnson is Regents Professor of International Affairs in the School of International and Public Affairs at the University of Georgia
Ritchie, author of The United States Congress: A Very Short Introduction. As both a committee insider and a scholar, Loch Johnson provides a lively, reliable, and insightful account of how that investigation operated, what it uncovered, and what reforms it prompted.”—Donald A. "A Season of Inquiry Revisited is the vivid—and often dramatic—inside account of a crucial security investigation and, for four decades, the only work of its kind. A Season of Inquiry Revisited is great reading for anyone with an interest in congressional and intelligence history, not to
While a White House panel focused narrowly on CIA spying at home, the Church Committee enlarged its investigation to include the FBI, the National Security Agency, and a host of other primarily military espionage services, as well as CIA assassination plots around the world. The nation has now arrived at a time when the lessons of the Church Committee warrant special remembering.. With a new preface and postscript along with an updated chronology and appendix, this new edition revisits a moment of reckoning in the halls of power. In this new edition the author, then a special assistant to Senator Church, revisits the circumstances surrounding the investigation and subsequent, shocking report and reminds us its continuing relevance—in instances such as the Iran-Contra investigation, the 9/11 and Iraqi WMD intelligence failures, the Edward Snowden affair, and, most recently, the US Senate Torture Report.A Season of Inquiry Revisited details a moment that was at once a high-water mark for intelligence accountability in the United States and a low point in the American people's trust of the agencies sworn to protect them. Coming on the heels of t