Perspective: The GOP is comparing its new House subcommittee to a famous probe, but the two have only superficial similarities
that “these investigations could be as damaging to the intelligence community as [Joe] McCarthy was to the Foreign Service.”Despite such doubts, the committee’s work brought about lasting institutional change, including the creation of theThe House also probed the intelligence community in the 1970s, with the investigation chaired by Long Island Democrat Otis Pike.
Another major difference: The Senate had laid the groundwork for the Church Committee through long-standing efforts to address concerns about the activities of the intelligence community. House Republicans have done nothing of the sort. Consider, for instance, perhaps the most troubling incident involving “weaponization” of the government in recent years — an FBI lawyer whoThe Page incident exposed a potentially serious abuse of power.
The Church Committee’s work also exposes a potential danger for Republicans who serve on Jordan’s subcommittee. In 1980, Church narrowly lost his Senate seat, partly because of a backlash against his foreign policy record. Two years before, Clark similarly went down to defeat.
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