August 25, 2023 • 50 mins
Come with us to a bygone era when a U.S. Senator from Idaho undertook a sprawling investigation of the CIA and its secrets. Drugging U.S. citizens, assassinating foreign leaders, overthrowing foreign governments. It all happened in this country and it was all revealed by the so-called Church committee in the 1970s. The details are all in the new book by Pulitzer Prize winner James Risen. At the NY Times, Risen wrote stories about CIA secrets and surveillance that angered President George Bush, whose Justice Department threatened the writer with prison. Risen refused to reveal his sources to the government, which eventually backed down.
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