CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS December 14, 2014 18:04:00
To be the sole judge of its own performance? the touchtone example of congressional revelations that are said to have damaged american foreign policy is the church committee. it became an article of faith for many that the committee set up in 1975 in the wake of the watergate scandal, destroyed the cia and weakened america. but what were its revelations? that the cia had attempted to assassinate a series of leaders across the third world, often in botched operations that provoked a nationalist backlash for decades, that it covered up its mistakes acidulously, that it had spied on american citi...
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