A Season of Inquiry: The Senate Intelligence Investigation
About this ebook
The hearings of the Church committee, together with investigations by the House of Representatives and a presidential commission, rocked the intelligence bureaucracy like nothing before; even the CIA's involvement in Kennedy's Bay of Pigs debacle paled in comparison. A deep schism developed within the Senate committee, and the House of Representatives was torn by acrimony and recrimination.
From his special vantage point as an investigator and aide to Senator Church, Loch Johnson incisively portrays the human element—jealousy, friendship, pique, ambition, fatigue—in these deliberations and traces the tangled lines of conflict and cooperation that stretch between Congress and the White House. Season of Inquiry affords a unique look at the workings of the United States Senate, not in its ordinary day-to-day business but in the heat and glare of publicity during the conduct of a major inquiry.
About the author
Loch K. Johnson is associate professor of political science at the University of Georgia and author of The Making of International Agreements: Congress Confronts the Executive. He served both as an investigator for the Church committee and as personal aide for its chairman and subsequently as staff director of the Subcommittee on Oversight, Committee on Intelligence, of the House of Representatives.
