Where news happens im Eileen O Reilly the 2023 president of the National Press club and managing editor of standards and training and axios thank you for joining us both here at the National Press club and on cspan for our headliner book event. I wanted to take a quick moment to thank our wonderful staff and volunteers here at the National Press club for helping put this event together, including our headliners, team cochairs dan on line one, la jay and laurie russo and cecily martin, who is the clubs membership events and program coordinator. We have a very exciting tonight with our esteemed Panel Focused on a book just out called last honest man. The cia, the fbi, the mafia and the kennedys and senators fight to save democracy. So lets get started. Quote, if dictator ever took charge in this country, technological capacity that the Intelligence Community has given that government could enable it to impose total and there would be no way to fight back. That may sound like a statement
Stay, to take care of her, to get shoes for her. She was determined to find her precious baby. This is the part of the american story that we all need to know as well. Thank you. Good evening and welcome to the National Press club the place where news happens im Eileen O Reilly the 2023 president of the National Press club and managing editor of standards and training and axios thank you for joining us both here at the National Press club and on cspan for our headliner book event. I wanted to take a quick moment to thank our wonderful staff and volunteers here at the National Press club for helping put this event together, including our headliners, team cochairs dan on line one, la jay and laurie russo and cecily martin, who is the clubs membership events and program coordinator. We have a very exciting tonight with our esteemed Panel Focused on a book just out called last honest man. The cia, the fbi, the mafia and the kennedys and senators fight to save democracy. So lets get started
The fisa court and how they could improve that but courts generally. I think the down side of courts generally is they are not often well equipped to handle classified cases. Aside from standing issues, the process of handling classified materials, stamped with clearances is a challenge with the courts and they have shown timidity when taking on the government and they defer to the government or rather than challenge the government or look for the least intrusive for the rights with Civil Liberties. So make a pitch for the krif liberties oversight board, we complement the judicial. We can meet with the nsa and cia and fbi informally and confer with congress informally without rules of evidence and standing requirements and have a review not limited to lelt review, although we did a legal review in the and i was pleased the Second Circuit adopted our legal analysis and we can do policy review and make recommendations to the president and to congress, not only on whether something is con
[applause] mayor coleman let me just say one quick thing about thurgood, how important he was to our country, for africanamericans, for those who wanted to go to law school africanamericans who wanted to go to law school, i was a part of that generation who looked up to him, believed in him, who was inspired by him. That i too someday could go to law school and i could someday become a lawyer. There is a whole generation of people just like me who have gone on to do that because of the bravery and the courage of Thurgood Marshall. So tonight, we are here gathered here this evening and i have view this really has the intersection of history and the future. What to i mean by that . The intersection of history and the future . Well, we are in Lincoln Theater. In this theater, this was the only place where black folks could come and get entertained in a theater because they couldnt go downtown. They would come right here. And this theater was nearly demolished. A wrecking ball almost tore
The Senate Permanent select Intelligence Committee, providing ongoing oversight of the intelligence agencies, and the creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 19 28, which we know as fisa. Two former Staff Members of the Church Committee are with us and will be with us to help provide Historical Context and help us understand the significance of the 40yearold video you are about to see. Frederick Fritz Schwartz is with our studio is elliot maxwell, who was counsel to the committee. Thank you to both of you for joining us. Lets just start with the basics, mr. Maxwell, could you explain how the Church Committee got constituted . What was the impetus . Mr. Maxwell most of it came about from a series of articles with activities by the Intelligence Community within the United States and followed by many people. This was in the context of the postwatergate resignation of president nixon. By still continuing the vietnam war there was the thought that the intelligence agencies