![]() ![]() This bed & breakfast is 0.9 mi (1.5 km) from T-Mobile Center and 1.6 mi (2.5 km) from Hallmark Visitors Center.Take in the views from a terrace and a garden and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.Kaw Township | 4.11km from Good Luck! A Kansas City Conjure Shop With a stay at 1812 Overture B&B in Kansas City (Crossroads Arts District), you'll be within a 15-minute walk of Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and Bartle Hall Convention Center. WELNA: Indeed, much of what's recently been learned about secret surveillance programs comes not from Congress, but from a person born seven years after the Church Committee ended its work - former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. I don't think we've had the investigation necessary to know for sure. So I'm not sanguine about saying, you know, there is no abuse happening today. And it took the Church Committee - it took the most rigorous congressional investigation in history to unearth all of this evidence of abuse. But Elizabeth Goitein of the Brennan Center for Justice says Congress is falling short in its oversight.ĮLIZABETH GOITEIN: We haven't had a Church Committee today. The abuse it exposed, ranging from assassination attempts of foreign leaders to infiltration of domestic war protesters, is no longer cropping up. ![]() WELNA: Civil liberties advocates agree the Church Committee has left its mark. Now, it's all changed, but the same principles apply. We were dealing with landline phones when we were on the committee. You know, the technology changes, making it more challenging. ![]() MONDALE: This just keeps right on being relevant. Mondale considers Congress's action last week to curtail the collection of phone records part of what the Church Committee got started. WELNA: Only two members of the Church Committee are still living - Mondale and Colorado Democrat Gary Hart. It's like the curtain was suddenly pulled off of the dirty business of spying, and it was pretty ugly. And now they found out that the government was doing a lot of wrong things. They thought it was doing something right. ![]() TOTENBERG: Before, most people trusted the government. Looking back on those hearings, NPR's Totenberg thinks they were also a turning point for an American public disillusioned by the war in Vietnam and Watergate. The Church Committee's public grilling of top intelligence officials was in fact a turning point for a Congress that never had investigated the nation's spy agencies. WALTER MONDALE: What counterintelligence objective was it thought you were achieving in opening the mail of what most of us would assume to be very patriotic, thoughtful, decent Americans?ĪNGLETON: Sir, I would - I would prefer if possible to respond to that question in executive session. WELNA: And Minnesota Democrat Walter Mondale had another question for Angleton - why had both the CIA and the FBI been opening the private mail of Americans, including novelist John Steinbeck, civil rights leader Martin Luther King and Mondale himself? Director Helms did not inform the president.ĪNGLETON: I would say, Sir, not by way of any excuse, but those are very turbulent periods for the intelligence community. JAMES JESUS ANGLETON: I believe so without any question.ĬHURCH: But it apparently was not done. As TV cameras rolled, Church asked Angleton about a CIA domestic surveillance program kept secret from even the president.ĬHURCH: Didn't the CIA have an affirmative duty to inform the president about such a program? WELNA: The room was packed as Chairman Church gaveled in a hearing featuring James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's recently-resigned head of counterintelligence. NINA TOTENBERG, BYLINE: The focus of the oncoming hearings will be an examination of how the CIA and other government agencies spy on the American people.ĬHURCH: The hearing will please come to order. NPR's Nina Totenberg reported at the time on the committee's first public hearings. The panel was formed following a New York Times expose of illegal domestic spying by the Central Intelligence Agency on antiwar protesters and other dissidents. WELNA: Like Congress's recent effort to curb the bulk collection of phone records, the Church Committee's work was prompted by secrets leaked to newspapers. There would in a word be no place left to hide. FRANK CHURCH: Such is the government's potential for monitoring any telephone conversation, any telegram, any unguarded conversation. ![]()
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