Lawfare Daily: Unearthing and Reckoning with the Intelligence Excesses of the Cold War
What can be learned from the intelligence community’s Cold War excesses?
Lawfare Senior Editor Michael Feinberg sits down with Matthew Guariglia and Brian Hochman to discuss their new book, “The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation into the National Security State,” in which they chronicle the law enforcement and intelligence community’s Cold War excesses, the Senate committee which uncovered them, and what we can learn about the resulting report in terms of our own era.
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Michael Feinberg is a former Assistant Special Agent in Charge with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he spent the overwhelming majority of his career combatting the PRC’s intelligence services. He is a recipient and multiple times nominee of the FBI’s highest recognition, the Director’s Award for Excellence, as well as numerous other Bureau honors and ODNI commendations. Prior to his service with the FBI, he was an attorney in both private and public practice. The opinions presented here are entirely his own and not that of the U.S. government.
Brian Hochman is Hubert J. Cloke Director of American Studies and Professor of American Studies and English at Georgetown University. With Matthew Guariglia, he is co-editor of The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation into the National Security State.
Matthew Guariglia is a senior policy analyst for surveillance and technology policy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is co-editor of The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation into the National Security State.
Jen Patja is the editor of the Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security, and serves as Lawfare’s Director of Audience Engagement. Previously, she was Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics and Deputy Director of the Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier, where she worked to deepen public understanding of constitutional democracy and inspire meaningful civic participation.
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