The CIA, FBI, Mafia, and the Kennedys: Senator Frank Church's fight to save democracy

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3 ай бұрын

Watch our interview with journalist Thomas Risen and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James Risen, co-authors of “The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator’s Fight to Save Democracy.” Together, we explored Senator Frank Church’s courageous stand against abuses of power by the CIA, FBI, Mafia, and the Kennedys.
For decades now, America’s national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did someone manage to put a stop to any of it.
Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and had become a scathing, radical critic of what he saw as American imperialism around the world. But he was still politically ambitious, privately yearning for acceptance from the foreign policy establishment that he hated and eager to run for president. Despite his flaws, Church would show historic strength in his greatest moment, when in the wake of Watergate he was suddenly tasked with investigating abuses of power in the intelligence community. The dark truths that Church exposed-from assassination plots by the CIA to links between the Kennedy dynasty and the mafia to the surveillance of civil rights activists by the NSA and FBI-would shake the nation to its core, and forever change the way that Americans thought about not only their government but also their ability to hold it accountable.
Drawing upon hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of recently declassified documents, and reams of unpublished letters, notes, and memoirs, some of which remain sensitive today, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James Risen tells the gripping, untold story of truth and integrity standing against unchecked power-and winning-in The Last Honest Man.
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@MichaelKennedy-tr1xc 3 ай бұрын

Very educational...Thank you

@TheListOf 3 ай бұрын

Mr. Frank Church was a good and courageous man.

@artsahobby123 3 ай бұрын

MK-ULTRA - Jolly West.

@sugarpuddin 3 ай бұрын

President Ford was a significant player in the Warren Commission coverup of the JFK assassination.

@jeffscheiner1553 24 күн бұрын

My first vote was for Church in the 1976 presidential primary.

@michellel5444 3 ай бұрын

I find it interesting that the authors are surprised by Church's reelection and the lack of Democrat subsequent elections in Idaho. I'm not a Democrat and I would have voted for him. Imo it says more about the direction of the democrat party than anything.

@artsahobby123 3 ай бұрын

Please do not forget Daniel Ellsberg.

@adrianc.demery8872 3 ай бұрын

Interesting

@Time2Vote2012 12 күн бұрын

I worked as a Frank Church re-electiom door knocker, volunteer. My family was Republican, but as many other farmers, it wasn't the party, it was the man. He helped who needed help, which many times bucking the Dem bureaucrats. Just from personal experience learning, the authors are wrong about Idahoans. We were/are much more independent than voting on party lines.

@AnthonyAnthony-tk4ye 3 ай бұрын

Oliver Stone’s JFK movie did a lot to get documents released in the 90’s… I don’t see how it has anything to do with the Church Committee

@jacobjones5269 18 күн бұрын

The Church did excellent work, and uncovered quite a bit.. But they never connected any of these dark entities on high down Lee Oswald or the crimes committed that day.. I think it’s important to understand this.. That there’s nothing there that isn’t derived from innuendo and conjecture, and leaps of faith..

@AnthonyAnthony-tk4ye 3 ай бұрын

Sounds like Carter didn’t really want 4 more years of the hell of being President lol…. people still voting and he’s like “yep, I lost, too bad, see ya when I see ya….!!!” 😂