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by senator church in the 70s to investigate abuses of power by the intelligence community. the committee conducted a broad, nonpartisan investigation that led to important revelations about the cia s covert operations. that included assassinating foreign leaders and infiltrating civil rights groups. and a lot of other previously unknown activities. prior to those hearings, there was no senate intelligence committee to oversee the cia. congress created that oversight body as a direct result of the church committees work. now today, house republicans are using the legacy of that important committee to justify their own attempts to investigate the investigations into former president trump. house republicans voted today along party lines to create what they are calling, a new church style subcommittee to investigate the quote, weaponization of the federal government. unlike the original church committee, this new effort by house republicans appear to have explicitly partisan goals.

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