1. The Senator Who Took On the CIA.
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HOCHSCHILD, ADAM
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DEMOCRATS (United States) , *POLITICAL participation , *TORTURE , *UNITED States senators ,WHITE House staff ,FREEDOM of Information Act (U.S.) - Abstract
"Frank Church and his committee took on the CIA, the FBI, and the NSA, and succeeded in bringing them under the rule of law for the first time." Although no president had ever before gone to the funeral of a CIA officer, Ford - along with Kissinger and other top officials - attended the service for Welch. BOOKS & the ARTS ON NOVEMBER 3, 1791, IN WHAT TODAY IS western Ohio, some 1,400 US soldiers under Maj. Gen. Arthur St. Clair, accompanied by more than 100 wives, children, prostitutes, and other camp followers, stopped for the night on the banks of the Wabash River. [Extracted from the article]
- Published
- 2023