With the controversy surrounding the choice of a new Speaker of the House of Representatives resolved, the American people must demand of their newly elected and installed congressional representatives the formation and active functioning of a 2023 version of the 1975 SELECT COMMITTEE TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE, more popularly known as the Church Committee, named after its chairman Senator Frank Church of Idaho. This is imperative and essential to the full and complete investigation of crucial questions surrounding government weaponizing, malfeasance, corruption, cronyism, misuse, and abuse of those three letter covert entities of the deep state such as the CIA, NSA, FBI, DEA, as well as the full panoply of the surveillance state regime intelligence community of the military-industrial complex comprised of pentagon profiteers, sub-contractors, the Big Tech/security state nexus. Such areas as intelligence community illegal and unlawful interface or collusion with the mainstream news media, social media platforms, the biomedical research and pharmaceutical industries, and other relevant and related subject areas the committee may discover of interest, focus and detailed investigation.

For those unfamiliar with the research and investigatory subject areas of the original “Church Committee,” here are their published Reports:

The Church Committee Report on Foreign and Military Intelligence: Church Committee: Book I – Foreign and Military Intelligence; Church Committee: Book II – Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans; Church Committee: Book III – Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans; Church Committee: Book IV – Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence; Church Committee: Book V – The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Performance of the Intelligence Agencies; Church Committee: Book VI – Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities; Church Committee: Interim Report – Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders; Church Committee: Volume 1 – Hearings on Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents; Church Committee: Volume 2 – Hearings on the Huston Plan; Church Committee: Volume 3 – Hearings on the Internal Revenue Service; Church Committee: Volume 4 – Hearings on Mail Opening; Church Committee: Volume 4 – Hearings on Mail Opening; Church Committee: Volume 5 – Hearings on the National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights; Church Committee: Volume 6 – Hearings on the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Church Committee: Volume 7 – Hearings on Covert Action

For those readers seeking historical background reference on the American intelligence community, here are authoritative items I recommend which I have in my personal library:

The American Deep State, The Central Intelligence Agency, and the American Empire of Bases (Richard Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America’s First Central Intelligence Agency; Patrick K. O’ Donnell, Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs: The Unknown Story of the Men and Women of WWII’s OSS; Burton Hersh, The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA; Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA; Joseph J. Trento, The Secret History of the CIA; Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence; David Wise and Thomas B. Ross, The Invisible Government; Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America; L. Fletcher Prouty, The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the World; Victor Marchetti and John Marks, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence; John Marks, The Search For The Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences; W. H. Bowart, Operation Mind Control: Our Secret Government’s War Against Its Own People; Ernest Volkman and Blaine Baggett, Secret Intelligence: The Inside Story of America’s Espionage Empire; Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters; Peter Coleman, The Liberal Conspiracy; John Loftus and Mark Aarons, The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Intelligence Betrayed the Jewish People; Bill Moyers, The Secret Government: The Constitution In Crisis; Michael Swanson, The War State: The Cold War Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex and the Power Elite, 1945-1963; Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade; Peter Dale Scott, American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan; Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs And The Press; Peter Grose, Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles; David Talbot, The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government; Stephern Kinzer, The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War; Jefferson Morley, The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton; David C. Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors; James Bamford, The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America’s Most Secret Intelligence Organization; James Bamford, Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency; James Bamford, The Shadow Factory: The NSA From 9-11 to the Eavesdropping on America; James Bamford, A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies; Evan Thomas, The Very Best Men: The Daring Early Years of the CIA; Evan Thomas and Walter Isaacson, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made; Kai Bird, The Chairman: John J. McCloy and the Making of the American Establishment; Kai Bird, The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms; C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite; G. William Domhoff, The Higher Circles: The Governing Class in America.)

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