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Law Professor's New Book Looks to Nation's Past in Understanding Government Response to War on Terror

Story Abstract:Written testimony from the 1975 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, also known as the "Church Committee," reads like a lot of Congressional testimony from the last two years. Then as now, a fierce debate raged over national security interests and the preservation of civil liberties.