IN THIS SECTION • Spying-Illegal-American • Torture o Senate Intelligence Committee ▪ CIA Director Brennan • Rockefeller Commission (pre-dated Church Committee, did some of the same things) • Church Committee (named after chairman Frank Church) o The Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities SURVEILLANCE - AMERICAN - CONTROVERSIES Spying-Illegal American Democratic Underground dot com Expert: Weaver, senior adviser to the group, added: "Ordinarily one would expect the Congress to be the guardian of our freedom by living up to its storied role as a check and balance to the president and the executive branch. But for four years, members of our Congress on supposed oversight committees were aware of illegal spying on American citizens." https //www democraticunderground com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x182938 Church Committee History Matters dot com Church Committee https://www.history-matters.com/archive/contents/contents_church.htm Excerpt: The Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, known as the "Church Committee" after its chairman Frank Church, conducted a wide-ranging investigation of the intelligence agencies in the post-Watergate period. The Church Committee took public and private testimony from hundreds of people, collected huge volumes of files from the FBI, CIA, NSA, IRS, and many other federal agencies, and issued 14 reports in 1975 and 1976. Since the passage of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act in 1992, over 50,000 pages of Church Committee records have been declassified and made available to the public. These files contain testimony and information on U.S. attempts to assassinate foreign leaders, on the Church Committee's investigation of the intelligence agencies' response to the JFK assassination, and related topics. Also available is the report of the Rockefeller Commission, which preceded the Church Committee and issued a brief report on CIA activities within the US. https://www.history-matters.com/archive/contents/contents_church.htm On Torture SIC - Senate Select Committee Intelligence on Torture Brennan CIA Director John Brennan before SIC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdhEn3CnuZo Wikipedia: SIC report on CIA torture note: this actually appears to be a good article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_report_on_CIA_torture Panetta Review Wikipedia: Panetta Review https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panetta_Review Report on the torture of Al Qaeda suspects New Yorker: How Did Abu Zubaydah Lose His Eye https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-did-abu-zubaydah-lose-his-eye Bob Graham Bob Graham was a U.S. senator from Florida from 1987 to 2005. He served as chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence from 2001 to 2003 and as co-chairman of the Joint Inquiry Into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001. Washington Post: I ran Congress’ 9/11 investigation. The intelligence committees today can’t handle Russia. By Bob Graham (2017) If they want a real autopsy, they need more resources. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/i-ran-congress-911-investigation-the-intelligence-committees-today-cant- handle-russia/2017/09/01/665f0d04-8c31-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a_story.html?utm_term=.4aa10e4f7dc1 Drugs Kerry Committee Report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Committee_report Updates: 2021/01/20--PAGE STARTED-Senate Hearings on Torture, moved from River Gold dot net; Updates from rivergold dot net-- 10/15/2017: Senate Intelligence Committee Review on Torture; Panetta Review; Page started 09/29/2017

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