IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1026 
For the re-opening of investigative hearings into the Counter-Intelligence 
Program (COINTELPRO) and other intelligence and law enforcement 
programs and agencies, and an expansion of those hearings to include 
renewal of previously curtailed abuses, and other activities sanctioned 
by the USA PATRIOT ACT. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 
Ms. MCKINNEY submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Select Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and in addition to 
the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
For the re-opening of investigative hearings into the Counter- 
Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) and other intel-
ligence and law enforcement programs and agencies, and 
an expansion of those hearings to include renewal of 
previously curtailed abuses, and other activities sanc-
tioned by the USA PATRIOT ACT. 
Whereas the Congress affirms both constitutional and inter-
national law and all existing legislation and resolutions 
that protect, defend, and assert human and civil rights; 
Whereas the Congress denounces the criminalization of polit-
ical expression; 
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•HRES 1026 IH 
Whereas the Congress condemns any abuse of human, civil, 
and constitutional rights undertaken by Federal, State, 
or local law enforcement agencies and agents; 
Whereas the Congress acknowledges the violations of law per-
petrated by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation 
(FBI) conducted under the Counter Intelligence Program 
(COINTELPRO), and other intelligence agency and law 
enforcement programs such as CHAOS, GARDEN 
PLOT, CABLE SPLICER, LANTERN SPIKE, and 
others, which targeted the leadership of progressive social 
movements and implemented extra-constitutional aggre-
gations of executive power or martial law; 
Whereas the Congress recognizes the findings of the Church 
Committee which identified COINTELPRO and related 
activities as an illegal, extra-judicial effort designed to 
disrupt and destroy opposition groups and movements, 
and anti-war protest, among others; 
Whereas the Congress regrets that the government investiga-
tions stopped short of making recommendations for relief 
for the victims of COINTELPRO and, as a result, doz-
ens still remain imprisoned, unjustly incarcerated as the 
result of FBI operations to ‘‘neutralize’’ the leadership of 
the civil rights movement; and 
Whereas the Congress recognizes that such abuses have been 
renewed in the United States under special Executive 
branch orders and mandates following the attacks of 9/ 
11, by existing and newly formed intelligence, security 
and law enforcement agencies including but not limited 
to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Central Intel-
ligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), 
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement (ICE), Department of Homeland 
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•HRES 1026 IH 
Security (DHS), Transportation Security Agency (TSA), 
and Director of National Intelligence (DNI), and by cer-
tain provisions of the USA PATRIOT ACT and related 
legislation: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the U.S. Congress will release any re-
lated classified documents that do not involve compromise 
of an existing source, agent, or method, and renew and 
administer hearings by all appropriate committees and 
subcommittees of Congress, or through the formation of 
a select oversight committee to investigate the past abuses 
and appropriate legal relief due to the victims of such 
abuses carried out under COINTELPRO and related pro-
grams by other intelligence and law enforcement agencies, 
and to identify any renewal of similar abuses following the 
attacks of 9/11 by any Federal or local agencies or Execu-
tive branch orders, or under the provisions of the USA 
PATRIOT ACT; and 
Be it further resolved, That Congress intends to renew 
legislation that will end these abuses and fully protect the 
constitutional, civil, and human rights of all U.S. citizens 
and others who fall under the protection of our laws and 
international laws and treaties the United States is signa-
tory to. 
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