Barrett, David M.: The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy.(Book review)

From: Perspectives on Political Science | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Crawford, Timothy W. | Copyright information

Barrett, David M. The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy Lawrence University of Kansas Press 542 pp., $34.36. ISBN 0-70006-1400-1 Publication Date: August 2005

After the December 2005 revelations of unauthorized National Security Agency (NSA) eavesdropping on U.S. citizens, the Bush administration defended the legality of the operations by asserting, among other things, that a handful of ranking members of House and Senate intelligence committees h...

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