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Frank Church, Deep State: The True Story of the Senator Who Took on the CIA and Its Corporate Clients

The Intercept Briefing

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The Legacy of the Church Committee

Before 1975 and the Church Committee, the CIA really could get away with anything. After 1975 and after the Church Committee,. there were rules. You could violate them, and it would be up to the Justice Department or Congress to actually call you on it. There was a rule of law that they were supposed to be following. They have continually and egregiously violated those rules over the years. But the difference is that there are now rules. There were no rules before. Today, we have this, what I would call a conspiracy theory that there is a deep state. I don't believe there is adeep state. There is a military industrial intelligence complex that is deeply rooted in the U.

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