Sunday, November 22, 2009

Unexpurgated Pike Report: Excerpts

The Pike report on CIA wrongdoing is hard enough to come across. Even worse: it is essentially impossible to purchase a copy of the Unexpurgated Pike Report, published by McGraw Hill in 1992.

So I'm putting an excerpt online here, which provides the 2 prefaces, the table of contents, a few details on the CIA and FBI's domestic intelligence practices in the 1960s, and a hint at the difficulties Congress faced in trying to hold the national security state accountable to any sort of rule of law.