> The White House.. denied the claims. #Hersh.. says the U.S. decision to bomb the pipelines was meant to lock allies into support for #Ukraine at a time when some were wavering. “The fear was #Europe would walk away from the war,” .. Hersh won a Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his reporting on the #MyLai massacre. His reporting on CIA spying on antiwar activists during the #VietnamWar era helped.. the formation of the #ChurchCommittee.. , he exposed the #AbuGhraib.. scandal
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/2/15/nord_stream_sy_hersh

#ChurchCommittee Aides Warn #Jordan to Eschew Partisanship

Staff members from the panel viewed as the gold standard of congressional inquiry advised the top Republican to pursue a bipartisan inquiry and operate in good faith with Democrats. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/us/politics/church-committee-jim-jordan.html

From fmr @CIA@twitter.com senior operations officer @douglaslondon5@twitter.com

Rep. Jordan’s Dangerous New Panel is Nothing Like the Church Committee

RT @just_security@twitter.com

Republican supporters compare Rep. Jordan’s “weaponization” panel to the 1970’s Democratic-led #ChurchCommittee that probed #intelligence abuses.

Not by a long shot, says former #CIA officer @douglaslondon5@twitter.com:

#CongressionalOversight #Disinformation
https://www.justsecurity.org/84906/rep-jordans-dangerous-new-panel-is-nothing-like-the-church-committee/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/just_security/status/1618978517882138625

No doubt #JimJordan et al. will impugn #GaryHart ‘s integrity in response to this #nytimes column, but the former #ChurchCommittee member draws clear lines between its work and “Benghazi II — Electric Boogaloo:”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/opinion/church-committee-republicans.html

#ushistory #history
~fifty years ago, Congress was interested in finding out about CIA human experimentation. Here's a snippet of 1.5 hrs from the #churchcommittee regarding #mkultra.
https://youtu.be/bMAwgjcXmmI