![]() ![]() National Intelligence Council Chair Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs Deputy National Security Advisor Director of Justice Department Executive Office for National Security Assistant Secretary of State Deputy Ambassador to the UN Security Council Counsel to the President's Intelligence Oversight Board CIA Inspector General Chief Judge of U.S. ![]() The signers of this letter include former occupants of intelligence, law enforcement, national security, and oversight positions. We are writing as former Church Committee staff members and counsel who worked in support of both Democratic and Republican Senators on that panel. Our purpose is to lay out certain hallmarks of the Church Committee, as guideposts for this next phase of House oversight. The Church Committee was clearly cited as a touchstone due to the credibility it garnered by the manner and method of its investigation, the scope and significance of the intelligence activities it revealed, and its farsighted recommendations for enhancing executive, legislative, and judicial checks and balances on intelligence activities affecting rights of Americans. ![]() Widely known as the “Church Committee,” that original intelligence investigation was chaired by Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho). Republican representatives initially referred to the Weaponization Subcommittee as a "reincarnation" of the 1975-76 Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities. ![]() The recent formation of the House Judiciary subcommittee which you now chair-the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government- raised an important historical parallel. Judiciary Committee, House of Representatives 2138 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. Open Letter to House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government ![]()
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