Commentary
Important and laudable as it was at the time (1975), we must conclude that the Senate’s vaunted “Church Committee,” under Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho), ultimately failed in its mission to reform the CIA, FBI, IRS, and the National Security Agency (NSA) anywhere near permanently.
Now, 48 years later, we are in a similar, arguably worse, situation with the same, and more, three-letter agencies, the only serious difference being that this time, Democrats are trying to cover things up while back then, it was largely the Republicans.
I hesitate to use Wikipedia, given its reflexive bias, but its summary of what the Church group found seems accurate:…