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Prompted by allegations from investigative journalists and the findings of US senator Sam Ervin, chair of the Senate Watergate Committee, in January 1975 Congress established a new intelligence committee tasked with investigating and publicizing illegal activities by the CIA abroad and at home. It found that "all six administrations from Franklin Roo se velt's through Richard Nixon's-four Demo crats and two Republicans-had secretly abused their powers," wrote Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr., the committee's general counsel. "This was prob ably the committee's single most impor tant finding." 1 Regardless, the bipartisan committee had a decidedly Demo cratic stamp, and while no president would have granted it every thing it requested, the task (and consequences) of disclosure and denial fell to president Gerald Ford.This reaction against executive power and secrecy was a consequence of the United States' Third World policy under Nixon and Ford, but it was not the only one. In the early 1970s Americans of both parties came to resent what they saw as ruling-class passivity toward the nation's declining global power and the Third World's rise. In speech after speech at the United Nations,

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN