Ten Blockbuster Hearings Congress Should Do
There are great opportunities as the new Democratic congress convenes. Please check out my forthcoming article in the Jan. 22 issue of The Nation, with cover story by Bill Moyers. See: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070122/collins
And make your suggestion for hearings at:
http://www.ips-dc.org/hearings/
I’m working with my colleagues at IPS to make sure a number of these hearings actually happen …and that you hear about them!
Best,
Chuck
THE NATION
Ten Blockbuster Hearings:
What Should Congress Do?
Chuck Collins
On May 9, 1975, a Senate committee chaired by Frank Church subpoenaed acting CIA director William Colby during an investigation of intelligence agencies. Colby (after practice sessions with President Gerald Ford's chief of staff, Donald Rumsfeld) was grilled about US covert operations, illegal assassinations and domestic spying abuses. The stunning revelations of the Church Committee hearings were followed by several years of rigorous Congressional oversight and reform legislation.
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