Volume 23, Number 15 · September 30, 1976
'Intelligence': The Constitution Betrayed
By Henry Steele Commager
Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities
United States Senate
US Government Printing Office, Washington
From the voluminous reports on the criminal activities of what is somewhat quaintly called the intelligence community, it is difficult for us to know whether to be more astonished at the arrogance of a succession of presidents who presided over it, or at the pusillanimity of successive Congresses which acquiesced in it—and financed it. More depressing than astonishing is the realization that neither the current president nor the current Congress appears to have learned very much from this somber chapter of our history.
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