Johnson of wisconsin. This meeting will come to order. I want to thank the witnesses for taking time for your thoughtful testimony. I think it will be pretty interesting description of a problem that i think plagues so many inner cities, and, from my standpoint, really one of the contributing factors of this is one of the Top Priorities of this committee is securing our borders. This is what, i think 25th, 25th hearing on some aspect of border security. Now the title of the hearing, border and security, the rise of ms13, other Transnational Criminal Organizations. Reading testimony well focus a lot on ms13 which is obviously in the news today. And what the witnesses tell the stories but it is kind of interesting the history of ms13, originally formed out of immigrants coming from el salavador, the war there, in california, Southern California area and then based on problems, those members being deported to Central America. The organizations grew and thrived in Central America. Now were
Interesting description of a problem that i think plagues so many inner cities and from my standpoint really one of the contributing factors of this is one of the Top Priorities of this committee is securing our borders. This is what i think our 25th . 25th hearing on some aspect of border security. Now, the title of the hearing was border and security the rise of ms13 and other Transnational Criminal Organizations. Reading through the testimony, it looks like were going to be focusing an awful lot on ms13 which is obviously in the news today. And ill let the witnesses tell the stories, but it is kind of interesting the history of ms13. Originally formed out of immigrants coming from el salvador, the war there in california, Southern California area. And then based on problems, those members being deported to Central America, the organizations grew and tliefd in Central America, now were seeing them come back sometimes in the form of unaccompanied children. I did send a letter yesterda
Interesting description of a problem that i think plagues so many inner cities and from my standpoint really one of the contributing factors of this is one of the Top Priorities of this committee is securing our borders. This is what i think our 25th . 25th hearing on some aspect of border security. Now, the title of the hearing was border and security the rise of ms13 and other Transnational Criminal Organizations. Reading through the testimony, it looks like were going to be focusing an awful lot on ms13 which is obviously in the news today. And ill let the witnesses tell the stories, but it is kind of interesting the history of ms13. Originally formed out of immigrants coming from el salvador, the war there in california, Southern California area. And then based on problems, those members being deported to Central America, the organizations grew and tliefd in Central America, now were seeing them come back sometimes in the form of unaccompanied children. I did send a letter yesterda
Beverly so, we will go ahead and get started since the moment has arrived. Others may trickle in from lunch, but thank you and welcome here to this panel on the Church Committee at 40. My name is beverly gage. I am a history professor at yale. And i will be up here mostly timekeeping and asking some questions. Before i introduce the panelists, i just wanted to say a few words about the genesis of this panel, the idea behind it and some of the issues i hope we are going to be able to address. So this year, 2015, marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most important congressional committees certainly of the 1970s. And i think arguably of the latter half of the 20th century and that was the Church Committee. The Church Committee which was chaired by Senator Frank Church began its work in the spring of 1975. And for the 16 months between the spring of 1975 and when they delivered 14 volumes of reports in 1976, the Church Committee held hearings, performed investigations, dug into Backgro
Historians hosted this 90minute discussion at their annual meeting in st. Louis. We will go ahead and get started since the moment has arrived and others may trickle in after lunch. My name is beverly gage. Im a history professor at gail and i will be here mostly chairing and timekeeping and asking some questions, but before i introduce the panelists , i just wanted to say a few words about the genesis of this panel, the idea behind it, and some of the issues i hope we will be able to address. This year, 2015, marks the audience anniversary of one of the most important congressional committees, certainly, of the 1970s, and i think arguably of the latter half of the 20th century, and that was the Church Committee. The Church Committee was chaired by idaho Senator Frank Church and the committee began its work in the spring of 1975, and the Church Committee held hearings performed investigations, dug into Background Materials on the American Intelligence Services this was the first mass s