A season of inquiry revisited
Subtitle: the Church committee confronts America's spy agencies
By: Loch K. Johnson
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780700621477
Subjects: Intelligence service; Legislative oversight; Governmental investigations
Description: "An updated re-issue of Loch Johnson's classic "insider" study of the US Senate's so-called Church Committee investigations (ca. 1975-1976) into the activities and abuses of our intelligence agencies (especially CIA and FBI). Named after Frank Church, its charismatic Democratic chair, the committee confirmed numerous cases in which agencies greatly overstepped the limits of their assigned powers and initiated reforms to curb future violations. Johnson, one of the deans of American intelligence and national security studies, served on the committee as a special assistant to Church himself"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.