"The Last Honest Man": James Risen on How Former Senator Frank Church Exposed CIA, FBI & NSA

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Veteran national security reporter James Risen joins us for an in-depth look at his new book, The Last Honest Man, about the work of Senator Frank Church to rein in the FBI, CIA and other agencies after the Vietnam War, Watergate and other fiascos had shaken the public's trust in the U.S. government. Church, a Democrat, chaired a Senate committee that in 1975 began investigating the intelligence community and uncovered numerous abuses, including assassination plots and widespread domestic surveillance. Risen's book also includes new details about Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg's previously unknown role in the work of the committee. "The Church Committee, I think, is probably the most important congressional investigation in modern American history," says Risen, who says it marked a "before and after" in U.S. national security policy and helped to limit abuses by the government in the decades that followed.
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@kevz2474 10 ай бұрын

Man this nations history is pure hell

@tothelighthouse9843 10 ай бұрын

American history--especially related to the CIA--is written in blood in Latin America. "Regime change" is such a clean way of saying genocide.

@CHIEF_420 10 ай бұрын

Rico, viejo, "blanco" hombres en gobierno quieren sistemico sexismo y racismo hoy y en historia 🇺🇲⌚️

@tombradburn3935 10 ай бұрын

Yet the masses fell for American exceptionalism hook line and sinker

@CEELOW3000 10 ай бұрын

That's an understatement

@waynebaker5720 10 ай бұрын

It's start was evil and continues until present; with rare and very few inhabitants that are just.

@maryglass3658 10 ай бұрын

God bless Democracy Now! and Amy Goodman. Fighting the good fight every day.

@jeremywatts8134 10 ай бұрын

That is pure ignorance. This show is a propaganda machine for the CIA. I’m so disappointed with the stupidity of Americans. You are brainwashed.

@urbanabrandon 10 ай бұрын

I hope you typed this tongue in cheek.

@maryglass3658 10 ай бұрын

@@urbanabrandon Nope. Not at all. Feel free to share your thoughts.

@Seekthetruth3000 10 ай бұрын

How about wiretapping Trump by the FBI, staging a coup against Trump, and rigging the presidential election in 2020 and the one in 2024? Any comments Amy Goodman and DN?

@Mr.Blatz- 10 ай бұрын

@@maryglass3658 What he means is he hopes you don't actually believe God is real, because it would be highly unusual for someone who watches Democracy Now to also believe in God.

@fjordhellas4077 10 ай бұрын

Democracy Now, you’re the best News Channel there is out there! No News outlets ( CNN, BBC, ABC… and the like can match you! )

@imrael496 8 ай бұрын

You set the standard very low.

@markstevenson8209 10 ай бұрын

The more I learn about the FBI, CIA, NSA and the State Dept. and our government the more I just HATE THEM. I am sure there is much, much more dirt and corruption we will learn about later.

@adamgorelick3714 10 ай бұрын

Some people call this, "Hating America." I call it being informed.

@yunnailavayen5574 10 ай бұрын

Don't think so " THEY ARE THE NEW " SS " FROM USA, THEY ARE NOW DESTROYING DEMOCRACY ALL OVER THE PLANT !! JUST LOOKED AT SOUTH AMERICA IRACK,EXT.

@ttacking_you 10 ай бұрын

Fuck that! Let's keep the FBI long enough to prosecute all the congressmen and senators who helped plot the Jan 6 insurrection.

@JulieSevelson-nb9nj 10 ай бұрын

@@adamgorelick3714 Truth is needed,even if it looks like hating. It's not unpatriotic to show there are problems that need fixing ! Fascists and Communists say the same thing- you hate the Motherland if you criticize how leaders run things.

@cfvgd 9 ай бұрын

Trump won because people started to wake up. That was a mistake by the people in power. They miscalculated the amout of cheating they needed. That mistake will not be made again. Whoever runs against Trump will win next year. No matter what. Just watch

@Dickson421 10 ай бұрын

It’s long been time for a new church style committee. Members of both parties need to demand this

@ResistEvolve 10 ай бұрын

There's only one party that serves Wall Street, the MIC and the alphabet agencies.

@aptorres01 10 ай бұрын

There is but one party, and they serve at the behest of the elitist and mic.

@frostyfrances4700 10 ай бұрын

Remember the time the Secret Service let a WH intruder sneak in one night and reach the foot of the staircase leading to Obama's private quarters? I've always been convinced that was their way of warning Obama they wouldn't necessarily protect him at all.

@paulheydarian1281 10 ай бұрын

@@aptorres01 Yes, just don't forget about the Big Banks and Big Pharma.

@pablojr.cotaoco8766 10 ай бұрын

What? Both party are connected

@hapennysparrow 10 ай бұрын

While all of this may seem shocking, I was a student protester during the Vietnam War. My boyfriend at the time(1968) was pulled from the lottery and forced to participate in the war. He was deeply opposed to the war, and we parted company as he fled to Canada. For several years afterwards, I kept receiving official letters from the CIA demanding I reveal my friends whereabouts. I had no clue where he was nor would I have disclosed that information if I did. I knew I was being watched, even though I was insignificant.

@EFurlongs 10 ай бұрын

CoIntelPro

@aliceinwonder8978 10 ай бұрын

that's scary...

@SOLH-vq3lh 9 ай бұрын

Omg, the red scare and the fear of the people protesting grotesque injsutices, which in turn was fear of unionizing, serious blockades, put all of these together and you get...the will of the people, and they were more afraid of this than anything. Btw, the CIA at that time, as declassified documents proves, did not only do a bad bad baaaad job on intelligence but had no problem act as scare mongers to keep their further funding going. But in the end, they just made everything worse, scared people into buying frickin "assemble at gome in your own back yard" bomb shelters and being afraid all the time, meanwhile...they just toppled democracies by funding fascist coups in central/south america, spied on their own citicens and...well, they were just bad people. I'm from Sweden, (have my own experience with intelligence trying to infiltrate and also attempt to disrupt meetings with plants, they were bad plants and they were bad at spying at that time, but at one point, they tried to stamp some groups as terrorist groups, but then 9/11 happened, which kinda showed the whole world how ridiculous this was, so we were spared,) but it doesn't come close to your experiences. Im sorry you had to go through this Sparrow

@barrydouglas6276 9 ай бұрын

Thank You! I refused to support the Apartheid government in military actions. The support of friends like you remains a debt I cannot repay.

@billsutherland9708 9 ай бұрын

Stories like this are why the US now favors proxy wars. The peace movement has been completely destroyed as we sit back and fund proxy wars.

@tothelighthouse9843 10 ай бұрын

The scary thing is, I bet this book barely scratches the surface. Eventually, I'm sure, James Risen hit brick walls--hidden documents, disappearing paper trails, dead informants, officials& politicians who said 'no comment', criminals who disappeared--beyond which he could not probe. US history is so much more than the **known** US history. "The Last Honest Man" sounds incredibly dense & complex, but fascinating.

@zedwolf1589 10 ай бұрын

I don't get much time to sit down and read anymore but I will make time for this book.

@tothelighthouse9843 10 ай бұрын

@@zedwolf1589 When I first saw your comment I was like 'f*ck you, my comment's not that long'. But then I understood, lol. I agree!

@jocksharerock7318 10 ай бұрын

@Tothelighthouse Yeah, there will always be things like JFKs assassination, or the true involvement of the CIA/US role in Lumumba’s, but Risen has some incredible stuff here. Even Truman knew how corrupt and ruthless JE Hoover was, yet paralyzed to stop him. Hopefully this book has details of James Jesus Angleton’s nefarious behind the scenes Cold War shenanigans. The quest for control of the world’s resources was insane. Still is

@debbiedogs1 10 ай бұрын

People like Risen surely see the massive EMBEZZLING SCAM, yet they never expose it. Corrupt Congress has been enabling, participating in, and HIDING the embezzling, while both criminal gangs in power just PRETEND to fight each other. The corrupt embezzling sociopaths in power lie to keep us duped; learn the truth and we can be very effective in fighting the inhumane liars. Vaxes, wars, digital IDs, social credit, and all the entities to control and squash us under the guise of caring about the climate - carbon tracking, ESG, 15-minute cities, etc - are PRIVATIZED, which is the major way they embezzle fiat government money. It is CRUCIAL for us to know the scam the US has done here and in all countries it takes over. The overview/exposé below is just 6 paragraphs, and shows us what is behind the curtain of lies they dupe us with. Information is power, and knowing what the scammers hide from us will mean we can do good OFFENSE and be effective in fighting the corrupt liars, not just keep reacting as the sociopaths continue to escalate their tyranny and oppression, and take everything from us. Here is what the US criminals have done all over the world, since WW2: 1. Take over a country by coup, assassination, lies about government being corrupt or by threat or invasion so they can... 2. Implement their EMBEZZLING scam of "privatization", taking over government services & systems and national assets so the corrupt liars can handle fiat government money & BILL THE GOVERNMENT ANY AMOUNT for running such things; they provide themselves with massive exec salaries and insanely high profits, becoming oligarchs and billionaires. 3. Lie to the public ENDLESSLY to keep us duped. 4. Praise leaders who submit to US corruption & demonize leaders who RESIST or reverse it - like Putin, who reversed the US plundering done under US puppet Yeltsin, like Chavez and Maduro in Venezuela, like Gaddafi wanting things nationalized and government money going to THE PEOPLE, like Morales in Bolivia, like Assad who said NO to a US pipeline through Syria, and so on. We also need to know that the demonization of both Russia and China is part of the multipronged US sabotage of the BRICS coalition since 2006. The greedy sociopathic money ADDICTS hate that those two countries are doing fair deals with other countries and helping them escape US control, corruption, privatization and loansharking. Also, vax co's & digital ID systems to control & subjugate us are "privatized" (as are quarantine camps). The scheme was to get TRILLIONS from many govts FOREVER while arranging to squash us so we could never rise up to stop their corruption, tyranny and inhumanity. They tried many pandemics previously to enrich themselves with government money; this was the most coordinated one - and used the most coercion. More specifics re "privatization" embezzling: Yes, in general a government can issue ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY for anything that is physically possible; the corrupt know this and have used that knowledge to scam the public and embezzle government money. They take over government services, conning the public about "saving money" and being "more efficient", but those are lies. The costs actually become higher because the corrupt liars overbill the govt for everything, billing ANY AMOUNT, providing massive exec salaries and insanely high profits, as already mentioned. And they give us REDUCED services, because their sociopathic greed and money addiction means they take more for themselves and do not supply what they are supposed to supply for us. Basically, the US has built a global corruption cartel, taking over countries (and their media) to EMBEZZLE from their governments. The UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand were coopted and corrupted in the 70s-80s; the massive embezzling that ensued by taking over the many dozens of government services, support systems, assets and resources they had is what gave rise to the billionaire class in the 80s! We need a successful INTERVENTION on the lunatic money addicts in power who lie, destroy and KILL for more "money fixes". They are totally UNFIT TO GOVERN and should face charges of dereliction of duty, violating the Constitution, embezzling federal money, crimes against humanity, violating the Nuremberg code, war crimes and more.

@kipincharge2833 10 ай бұрын

two Senators interested in being President and would address the CIA 🔥Tsongas and Church🙊🙉🙈

@anthonymcneill1465 10 ай бұрын

For me, this was an interesting interview. If I thought that I was aware of some history in the era discussed, I was not as informed as I am after listening. Thank you! The book is a must read, in my view.

@billmitchell2080 10 ай бұрын

Read all of Jim Risen you can. He is one of the good ones.

@zedwolf1589 10 ай бұрын

Anthony, Sam Sedar of The Majority Report quite commonly has on authors in the first half of his show who have written very interesting books but this does seem like an exceptional read. Being better educated is always a good thing.

@billmitchell2080 10 ай бұрын

Thom Hartmann also writes interesting books and has great authors on his KZbin channel also.

@wellpleased1836 8 ай бұрын

Let the Bible do the talking Who was it that said that the nation of Israel would become a nation again? What is the only book or words ever uttered or written down from since before our time that have we as a whole seen come true? Matthew 24:32 “Now learn a parable of the fig tree: When his branch is yet tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh. 33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. And what does this parable tell us in its highest level of understanding? That Israel will become a nation again. And that the harvest, (the final season for this wicked world) is even at the door (upon us). Who was it that said these words? Wasn't it God himself? God who came to visit us on the earth in 7BC-33AD. And in a very picturesque and eloquent way of speaking. Through the nation of Israel. A nation that rejected God himself. Just like the historic parable of the wicked Israelites that returned to Jerusalem just to die in the land of Egypt contrary to God's constant forgiveness. Israel today has returned to its land of Israel only to once again deny the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the words of the one thing that all Israel believes in. and that of prophecy come true. Who's words prophesied that the branch would bear leaf again? This time the Messiah has returned as the great potentate. The highest law officer in all creation. The Judge of mankind. And when mankind is judged then the proof of the judge's credentials must be presented. Mine are the very words of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's whose words came true for all the world to see. For all generations before the end. Yes, you and me and our parents and sons and daughters. This is an everlasting judgment no one is without the high court of God. His judgments are right and just, merciful and compassionate. Israel of today is as dead as the Israelites who ran away from God into Egypt. Jeremiah 44:12 And I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine. They shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be an execration and an astonishment, and a curse and a reproach. This Israel has run away from God once again to the new Egypt. It may as well be a new Egypt, as judgment is upon all the nations of the world and upon all people, and creation itself. And are no closer to the sons and daughters of God as they were in 33 AD. Jeremiah 44:12 is a real time walking live breathing historical parable that describes all of the world. God gave us so much time to turn from our wickedness. It's too late. Just like the world over starting with the churches in 1988. It's too late. Who's words are the only words that we as mankind cannot deny over all of our theories. our infactactuation of Luck, our ignorance swayed by coincidence? God scoffs at that. Psalm 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision. That's God's judgment up to mankind. It's too late. The jury (the prophets of the Bible) is in and guilty is the verdict. The Judge God and author of the Bible finds mankind must pay the penalty of death everlasting. And to those who wear white robes with palms in their hands, there is life everlasting. The dye is set and ink and paper of the Book never lie. It's too late for a divorced adultress whom God has no obligation to defend (the nation of Israel and the churches and the nations of the world) as God sees all sinners alike. It's too late for the entire world. The book of Jeremiah was written to all the nations and is alive and as sure today in the day of the harvest as it was in the day of unleavened bread. This goes much deeper and deserves a closer look. The world, every man, woman, and child must now ask the question: Who said Israel would become a worldly (gentile) nation again? ANSWER: Matthew 24:32. Let the Bible do the talking.

@hapennysparrow 10 ай бұрын

I read a fascinating book some tears ago titled" King Leopold's Ghost," about the conquest of the Congo by the Belgium King. The whole brutal history of the enslavement of the people of Congo by Belgium was hard to read. I wept at the cruelty of the subjugation of a once prosperous nation into one large slave camp. When independence was finally granted, the first Democratically elected leader was Patrice LaMumba. It was President Eisenhower who ordered his assination, in order to install a dictatorial leader who would dance to American interests. Since I had just come of age during this period of history, I am going to find this book. I will recognize many of the key actors. More innocent blood on America's hands. This is not what Drmicracy looks like. If I am not mistaken, Eisenhower played a big part in pulling down The leader if the Phillipines in order to install a corrupt leader who was favorable to American interests. The beat goes on. As Kurt Vonnegut would say, " And so on and so forth."

@tommcdermott2412 10 ай бұрын

The US as never supported democracy, domestically or abroad.

@vernonfrance2974 9 ай бұрын

@@tommcdermott2412 Abroad they usually did not even bother to go through the motions of "democracy." If we had allowed countries to have their elected leaders and use their resources to benefit their own people we might have avoided a lot of the refugee crises around the world today. Look what we have done to Venezuela even trying to "appoint" a new president of our choosing. Allende of Chile was murdered on 9/11/ 73 with help from Kissinger. Bush the First gave the first and only public mention of a New World Order on 9/11/91.

@jimmcloughlin 9 ай бұрын

Friendly old Brit: There s a book called "The Brothers" by Stephen Kinzer that covers the evil Dulles brothers who ran the State Dept and CIA.

@vernonfrance2974 9 ай бұрын

@@jimmcloughlin They were EVIL. Their CIA was plotting with the Bush's EVIL CRIME FAMILY - Grandfather Prescott, Pappy Bush AKA Bush the First, and Shrub Bush AKA Bush the Second. Together, they managed to take the USA down from its peak of world popularity under JFK to the depths of the unwarranted attacks on Afghanistan justified by the Mother of All False Flags 9/11 and the attack on Iraq because of non-existent WMD's only exceeded in perfidy by Trump's orders to sneak attack and kill two generals, one from Iran and the other from Iraq. Neither was involved in acts against the USA. Pappy also supplied the cocaine for the crack epidemic in the USA while doing underhanded deals with Iran and secret but illegal support for the Contras in Nicaragua which spilled over to El Salvador and Honduras. It was his fellow Texas Oil Tycoon and Political Supporter's son who almost drilled Ronald Reagan through the heart, leaving NO DOUBT who "called the shots" in the Reagan Administration. They undermined the Middle Class with their tax breaks for the rich and their planned housing crises of the Savings & Loans destruction in the late '80's and the planned Bank Failures and Foreclosures on Mortgages in 2007-2008.

@ruthweekly8086 8 ай бұрын

Thank you. I was in High School when Eisenhower was president. For some reason things he said and did made no sense to me. The saying back then was, Everyone loves Ike, but I did not. When I finally got a computer I started looking him up and found out he was evil. It seemed to me Eisenhower favored Nazism.

@kristalkristal2506 10 ай бұрын

I don't really understand why you guys limit time and rush like you do. It's not like you're on broadcast TV and need to fit into a particular schedule. I mention this because I have really enjoyed listening to James Risen. I'm not a US American, but I do know something about your history, and yet this is a totally new topic for me. This was a fascinating and likewise appalling story about extraordinary people - both very good and very bad ones. I could have listened to James Risen speak for hours, and I am left wondering to myself: Why not give me a chance to do that? Just a thought. Thanks for bringing this gifted investigator/author into my room tonight. It was a pleasure to receive him, and I feel just a little bit smarter for having done so.

@UTubeISphere 10 ай бұрын

Politics and Prose (a bookstore in DC) has a one-hour book talk with the author, also on KZbin

@saskk2290 9 ай бұрын

I have yet to watch this piece (I will now, because I know of Frank Church), but I am forever skeptical of Risen. Not out of ideology or anything. Watch the Democracy Now interview with he and Glenn Greenwald on whether Trump is a traitor. Risen was out of his depth and sucked in by the hysteria. An interesting conversation nonetheless. I have nothing but great disdain for Trump, but the establishment is something else and the Dems are wolves in sheep's clothing (GOP just wolves). All are willing to lie for gain. James Risen is no radical, and was sucked in by "Hitlerizing" of Trump (I do see parallels, but not enough to warrant the hysteria). I don't care about Trump's reputation, I care about the hypocrites and liars laying the charges who still support empire, Wall Street and embrace people like George W. Bush & Kissinger. As many have said, Trump is a symptom, not the disease.

@amelliangames7365 8 ай бұрын

They actually DO broadcast on tv and therefore has time limits.

@judyclark1906 10 ай бұрын

I am very glad that you have broadcast this author's excellent and laudable report. We are not 'out of the woods' yet, on this profound issue of national security and our Future as a democratic republic, a government "of, by, and for the people.

@DJS11811 10 ай бұрын

And now the NSA does whatever it wants with no oversight.

@nonino1644 10 ай бұрын

Snowden told the truth.

@wellpleased1836 8 ай бұрын

@frostyfrances4700 10 ай бұрын

Sheesh. I was in primary school when Castro came touring the states after toppling Batista. My teacher said to write to someone in the news. So I looked at my Weekly Reader and there was Fidel on the cover. I wrote a very simple letter just saying that I hoped he'd lead his country better than his predecessor, "which shouldn't be too hard since Batista was so bad." FBI came out of the woodwork. A child doing a school assignment. I'm probably lucky nobody sic'd the CIA on me. But it did nothing to encourage me to lean to the right as I grew older either. In fact, quite the opposite. Around the age of 12 or so, I grew increasingly aware of my internal politics.

@jimmcloughlin 10 ай бұрын

Friendly old Brit: I took great pleasure in reading that since I have long since held Cuba's current state is down to US policy on trade and economic embargo which still stands today despite UN condemnation. The fact that he was a leftie and on the doorstep and wanted improvement for the Cuban peasant and not American money clearing began his problems.

@tuckerbugeater 10 ай бұрын

@@jimmcloughlin The world is a chessboard.

@jimmcloughlin 10 ай бұрын

@@tuckerbugeater With no pieces that says population.

@vernonfrance2974 9 ай бұрын

@frostyfrances4700 At that tender age you knew far more about the US foreign policy than most people do even today. I remember so many used to scratch their heads and wonder why the USA was so hated around the world after all that "Foreign Aid" we gave them. There are not many asking that question any more.

@kimmacdermotroe2957 10 ай бұрын

Frank Church deserves to be honored for his courage in exposing the incipient police state. Who will carry on his work?

@deeone5326 10 ай бұрын

Thank you Democracy now and KZbin.❤❤❤

@Seekthetruth3000 10 ай бұрын

How about wiretapping Trump by the FBI, staging a coup against Trump, and rigging the presidential election in 2020 and the one in 2024? Any comments Amy Goodman and DN?

@imrael496 8 ай бұрын

KZbin censorship is part of the problem.

@jamesharrington4752 10 ай бұрын

Thank you Mr. Risen.

@acornsucks2111 Ай бұрын

For what?

@irenesorina3934 10 ай бұрын

Sir James Risen,love your work,the intelligence research and work is very important especially the kind of leaders we have,can trust them.

@elisabethpearl9790 10 ай бұрын

Wow.....when you learn this kind of stuff, it's easy to see how America got to where it is now

@Achrononmaster 9 ай бұрын

I love that intro. Because Cheney harped on about the Church committee James Risen writes a book about it validating Frank Church. Epic.

@Knucklehead123 8 ай бұрын

What a report. Thank you for this interview with author James Risen.

@markross2124 2 ай бұрын

This how federal law enforcement agencies spend the tax payer's money?

@valkiehaider4544 10 ай бұрын

Amy my dear...excellent..top notch.. coverage today.. I had time to listen to the whole show.. Sunday.. incredible Amy..crew..thank u so very much!!🙏🙏🕊🕊🐞❤️

@tristancelayeta6890 9 ай бұрын

Excellent reporting of "hidden" history.

@user-xf1fr6jp7v 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this valuable information.

@buttafan4010 10 ай бұрын

Remember Dorothy Kilgallen.

@ResistEvolve 10 ай бұрын

Senator Church was a Democratic Senator from Idaho (not mentioned in this interview?) if you can believe that!

@davidmenasco5743 10 ай бұрын

Yes but keep in mind, in 1975 about half the Republican senators were to the left of today's Democrats (which admittedly is not very left), and the majority of them considered Ronald Reagan to be an unelectable extremist.

@joeblow3990 10 ай бұрын

Today Idaho is a cesspool of white supremacy, right wing militias, and far right wing conspiracy theorists. The right wing backlash against the 1960's openings towards democratic governance in the USA....that backlash continues unabated.

@daviddesroches-wm1fq 10 ай бұрын

This is how empires crumble. Not only at the seat of power..... But where that power touches. Which is global.😊

@PhatLvis 10 ай бұрын

Important to remember that what we keep calling "communism" (and always have) is actually Soviet Totalitarianism (or sometimes its milder Chinese variant, et al) - which had nothing at all to do (aside from name and a perverted, disfigured, tenuous connection - despite briefly earnest beginnings) with Marxian ideals. This misnomer has been deeply driven into Americans' heads - yielding a very convenient bogeyman for the Establishment, which has gotten (and continues to get) fantastic mileage from the Scare word.

@1harrismccarty 10 ай бұрын

Successful right wing movements seem to co-opt language from the left, imo because if they were honest about their intentions no one would support them.

@stanislavm.3757 10 ай бұрын

Bullshit.

@silver3149 9 ай бұрын

Look around the world, all governments are in the faze of collapsing. The people are waking up, and seeing how the system has fostered corruption. Here is the 911 The Fourth Kingdom of Iron and Clay a/ka/the fourth world is in the pricess of collapsing. The New Kingdom/Fifth World: The Fifth Kingdom to be established upon the Earth, which is slated to be the everlasting Kingdom to last for forever and ever. "Under God; One People United. "

@ypure3859 10 ай бұрын

.this was fascinating. i will certainly get this book

@David.Morgan 10 ай бұрын

Risen is a paid hack for Corporate Media and certain Agencies. He ywists everything. Google is views on Julian Assange.

@buttafan4010 10 ай бұрын

Bush Knew ... he held my pet goat upside down!

@Tristan_again 10 ай бұрын

Risen is an excellent journalist and I haven't read this book but certainly in this interview, there's no new material. Read Anthony Summers' excellent books, Official & Confidential (on Hoover) and Kennedy Conspiracy for the intelligence-mafia relationship. The Giancana book, Double Cross, also covers intelligence-mafia relationship in some detail.

@buttafan4010 10 ай бұрын

Hoover was blackmailed by the mafia to state the mafia did not exist.

@MRSZ5440 10 ай бұрын

I'm definitely going to get Mr. Risen book thanks Amy for this interview I have a clearer understanding of those events now. I came up in the Vietnam era

@Leonitus333 9 ай бұрын

AMAZING! Thank You!

@buttafan4010 10 ай бұрын

Nationwide General Strike ... yet?

@JoAnneSmith-fe1eo 8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@irenesorina3934 10 ай бұрын

Wow! I like it to make into a movie,it should have been a blockbuster. Thanks DN,

@nicolakirton2252 9 ай бұрын

So sorry to hear you had that, what must, at the time, have been a terrifying experience. I hope your friend was alright and safe in the end, and was, if he wanted to, able to return to the US safely.

@timeenoughforart 10 ай бұрын

Church from the state of Idaho! IDAHO! My state sure has changed.

@wilhelmtomas4023 10 ай бұрын

Back then California & New Jersey leaned Republican while West Virginia was as solid for the Democrats as any state in the. union. Social conditions & political coalitions are always changing, & 50 years is an eternity in politics. Idaho & Montana once had a much stronger union presence, which may account for much of their past tendency to elect Democrats. Evangelical Christians weren't organized politically & mostly voted Democrat. In 1976 they even saw one of their own - Jimmy Carter - elected president. The right-wing media complex as we know it today didn't yet exist; & the cultural divide between urban & rural America didn't have the political salience that it has today.

@kelseymj1975 10 ай бұрын

almost no screenwriter could make a story like that sound believable, crazy that it actually is though.

@buttafan4010 10 ай бұрын

ENRIQUE TARRIO, LEADER OF THE PROUD BOYS IS AN FBI INFORMANT

@htopherollem649 10 ай бұрын

duh😉

@buttafan4010 10 ай бұрын

@@htopherollem649 🎼🎶 ... first to admit it ... and the last to know - Paul Simon

@Tonsirton 10 ай бұрын

Thank You 🗽🗽🗽

@IcallEmAsIcEm 10 ай бұрын

Bravo!

@thosethatcan 9 ай бұрын

This is a heck of an interesting interview* SHARE WIDELY.

@rukeyser 10 ай бұрын

Young Frank Church : i am always moved to see the young faces of old names. I am 74 - as with many other congressional leaders, i know his name and work from pre-internet days.

@rajpoot99 10 ай бұрын

Eye opening, democracy for the few

@Seekthetruth3000 10 ай бұрын

How about wiretapping Trump by the FBI, staging a coup against Trump, and rigging the presidential election in 2020 and the one in 2024? Any comments Amy Goodman and DN?

@Lance0714 10 ай бұрын

George H Bush cia then black water

@KristinaTurnerAquarius 7 ай бұрын

My family from hell.

@bartpappas3236 10 ай бұрын

Johnny Roselli was not from California, he was from Chicago and controlled by the Chicago Outfit.

@KohalaLover 10 ай бұрын

He was in charge in California but you’re right: Chicago.

@williammayhoperights 10 ай бұрын

how about Robert and John Kennedy? the elephant in the room.

@publicdomain1103 10 ай бұрын

I'm sure our fine elected officials have this under control........

@KohalaLover 10 ай бұрын

Thank you Amy.

@CHIEF_420 10 ай бұрын

🤘

@stella3265 10 ай бұрын

Tony Accardo was the head of the Chicago Outfit, not Giancanna. Accardo was untouchable. Was Accardo who ordered the murder of Giancanna. I plan on reading Mr. Risen’s book. Fascinating. The conquest of The Congo is a fascinating story and tragic. I am sure most of you have read “American power and The new Mandarins” worth revisiting.

@suzanneharris8339 10 ай бұрын

Frank Church would have made a great President. 👆

@jrt4585 10 ай бұрын

So if most of the people in congress and the White House thought Hoover had blackmail material on them, (even if he didnt, )what does that say about their character?

@johnwheeler4034 10 ай бұрын

8:15 So apropos today! Let it Strengthen Our Cause and Action!

@KoolK15 9 ай бұрын

Excellent interview! Very informative. I would love to hear more reporting on MLK as an anti war figure and if this influenced his assassination also?

@imrael496 8 ай бұрын

It's happening now.

@FoxSt3v3 8 ай бұрын

good shit guys

@deeone5326 10 ай бұрын

Thank GOD the Good are Setting OUR SIGHTS - 😅😅😅❤❤❤

@uradragon 10 ай бұрын

There is in place an American Stasi, the Patriot Act opened the door for such an organization. It is modeled after the East German Stasi and there is no problem finding recruits. A democracy would find little use for such, however an authoritarian regime would find it invaluable for containment and control. There is the added effect of the shredding of trust that helps to break down society. It is in place and has been for some time. 24/7 internet and phone.

@chinookvalley 10 ай бұрын

Read some of Bob Woodward's books if you have any assumption that our gov is looking out for our own good. Since man first roamed the Earth I imagine that there were always those that hoarded and stole, used and abused those that he could, threatened and maimed for the fun of it, and was secure in knowing he was right.

@wellpleased1836 8 ай бұрын

@flash_flood_area 9 ай бұрын

What??? We DO have a police state! And what effective oversight has there been on the CIA, since the Church hearings???

@sandraspidle5972 9 ай бұрын

This was quite telling. Hmph...... Thank you, Amy.

@paulheydarian1281 10 ай бұрын

I don't know. The thought of a President Church seems off putting. 😬 Those Jay Edgar Hoover photos are truly disturbing. He has the look of a dangerous killer. He wouldn't look good in any dress.

@mashonism 10 ай бұрын

Good show

@nicolakirton2252 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic and fascinating new information about what I think was the most relevant period in 20th century America. I cannot help having the feeling that, at this point in history, and I hopethis results in a page turning event happening in America, which shifts away from the methods which were used in the past to spy on people,with the ultimate goal being murder, and that we are slowly, but surely, moving towards a time when we have politicians who are honest in their views and policies, instead of what we have now, which is politicians who say one thing, then go and vote against what they have just said. That era must come to an end.

@Ianpact 10 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@brentbeacham9691 8 ай бұрын

Long form answers. 🎉

@stairway-steeltalkironresp7595 10 ай бұрын

Wickedness in high places. *Steel Talk*

@Christopher-po8pt 10 ай бұрын

Man this has to tie into Knennedy's assassination and the mob. Really makes me see between the line in his "THE PRESIDENT AND THE PRESS” (27 APRIL 1961)" speech.

@jonathansheehan3121 10 ай бұрын

Go look up William C. Sullivan... That's a complete rabbit hole...

@tashalorm4313 10 ай бұрын

" We''ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." William Casey former CIA director (1980's)

@user-bl7oe2md4p 10 ай бұрын

Wasn't Sullivan Hoover's right arm? Doing all kinds of surveillance, harassment, disruption, infiltration, compromising, setting people up, working through fronts. I mean these are the people who are supposed to be the gold standard model for professionalism in law enforcement?

@rosemariebredahl9519 10 ай бұрын

Doesn't Homeland Security oversee the other branches of intelligence? In theory, shouldn't Congress just have to oversee Homeland Security?

@CHIEF_420 10 ай бұрын

🧂🧂

@parallaxcontinuum7898 7 ай бұрын

Money provides somerthing of a trail, which presents a clue to their "wanderings"-but it stops cold when that trail enters Switzerland.

@benitapernell8556 10 ай бұрын

I remember Ice Cube's interview with Roland Martin, well Rolan Martin's panel went in on Ice Cube he handled the insults and criticism well. I was very disappointed with the comments of those so-called college-educated individuals for their ignorance. Unfiltered I have ever watched. College-educated people did not understand if Ice Cube was able to get us a seat at that table work with him, not against him, perhaps you may be the individual to accompany him at that table it takes more than intelligence to get what you want sometimes you need common sense along with intelligence.

@soniaprovard8259 10 ай бұрын

Fascinating interview!! Can’t wait to read this book!!

@EFurlongs 10 ай бұрын

It's good

@Seekthetruth3000 10 ай бұрын

How about wiretapping Trump by the FBI, staging a coup against Trump, and rigging the presidential election in 2020 and the one in 2024? Any comments Amy Goodman and DN?

@David.Morgan 10 ай бұрын

It is packed with half-truths and Lies. You do understand who pays Risen, don't you?

@Seekthetruth3000 10 ай бұрын

@@David.Morgan Who pays him?

@EFurlongs 10 ай бұрын

@@Seekthetruth3000 ( we gotta hear this one )👂 😂

@buttafan4010 10 ай бұрын

Sirhan Sirhan was MK Ultraed. It's Dr. Pepper's Time!

@choiceillusion 9 ай бұрын

Subscribed. Please continue this type of journalism.

@jacklenshelton2947 10 ай бұрын

Such good information!

@David.Morgan 10 ай бұрын

Such a pack of misinformation. You do know, who pays Risen, don't you?

@notrueflagshere198 10 ай бұрын

This is good, despite Amy's baiting about"what the Kennedys knew and when they knew it." She definitely still holds her defense stocks.

@dianahill5116 10 ай бұрын

Former president Kennedy was involved with the mafia. Former president Kennedy had extramarital affairs.

@Seekthetruth3000 10 ай бұрын

How about wiretapping Trump by the FBI, staging a coup against Trump, and rigging the presidential election in 2020 and the one in 2024? Any comments Amy Goodman and DN?

@BlahblahblahblahblahblahblahFU 10 ай бұрын

It’s her job… like what reporters should be doing!

@margeroehrbach9524 10 ай бұрын

Amy Goodman went in a certain direction at one point. Whether her stocks or what the deal was, she's compromised

@jocksharerock7318 10 ай бұрын

@@margeroehrbach9524 She’s compromised? How so?

@MrDXRamirez 10 ай бұрын

Is Jake Sullivan of the State Department any relation to William Sullivan, Hoover’s intelligence chief?

@jonathansheehan3121 10 ай бұрын

Mr. Sullivan? He was kind and shook my hand, when I was four. He came by my house, to visit my grandmother. He was killed in a "hunting accident* standing on his deck in Sugar Hill NH on a fall morning later that year. Apparently he was going to tell Congress what he knew .

@MrDXRamirez 10 ай бұрын

@@jonathansheehan3121 Nice story but it does not answer my question.

@philipzaccheus8398 10 ай бұрын

Informative information for knowledgable knowledge of necessary knowledge and access to real notable truth.

@TI.T.O 10 ай бұрын

They have neural monitoring capabilities folks, they can literally read your mind. See what your thinking. And sit in your head for months, or even years. Be warn, you got to watch what you think

@TI.T.O 10 ай бұрын

Then they use v2k tech to fuck with you and put you through mk ultra, but everyone around you will think your going crazy and dismiss it all under a mental health crisis. And then dissapear you.

@nonino1644 10 ай бұрын

I believe this! I think it works via our eyes. Over and over I'll think of something unusual, uncommon and poof I see it in comments or recommended. It's different than using a word and YT guides you to videos that have those words in the video or comments.

@werebitch1313 10 ай бұрын

How was the Defense Intelligence Agency affected by this? Or were they exempt?

@hlnbee 10 ай бұрын

I new a man who worked for DIA and was sworn to secrecy.

@werebitch1313 10 ай бұрын

@@hlnbee The thing I always find funny about them is that even though their existence is publicly acknowledged... most Americans have never heard of them. Which makes them a pretty good place to hide things when Congress starts questioning the better-known intelligence agencies &/or the military. I'm not saying that's happening, simply that it appears logical that it would.

@johnwheeler4034 10 ай бұрын

8:50 Name Names Dammit!

@34rn357 10 ай бұрын

I am going to get “The Last Honest Man,” by James Risen. That’s the comment.

@philipzaccheus8398 10 ай бұрын

Informative information for knowledge seekers

@Tonsirton 10 ай бұрын

That's The Most Disturbing Thing I've Ever Heard In My Life!!!🙀🙀🙀

@jakecarlo9950 10 ай бұрын

Amazing.

@mhandley0711 10 ай бұрын

Such a strange twist of fate that John Kerry shows up at about 1:20 when Colby is answering a question about abuses. The twist of fate, the irony is how Kerry and his boss have trampled the first amendment as adjudicated by federal court in Louisiana where the government is now forbidden from being in touch with social media for most purposes they formerly were. Those contacts were judged to be among the WORST violations of the first amendment by our government ever. Ha

@buttafan4010 10 ай бұрын

Six Ways To Sunday ... The Movie!

@Owl350 8 ай бұрын

This needs to happen again to the CIA and the FBI that's the only thing they have coming !!! They've made it too dangerous for certain veterans to live in this country!

@zedwolf1589 10 ай бұрын

This book should be a best seller but I'll be real surprised to see him doing the network news round about. And this book is from things over 50 years ago but our government and its friendly news doesn't like anyone talking I'll of it whether it's the truth or not.

@kamsiahg 10 ай бұрын

Interesting information.

@gregorygarcia7807 8 ай бұрын

OH! What tangled web we weave! My sweet and lovely country! We have never been the humble honest and scholarly nation that is exported in verse and rhyme. I only wish we could!

@nancycole-auguste6614 9 ай бұрын

So many women are honest and only wish to love and be loved

@ric2play 9 ай бұрын

Another book!!!!

@troyheald77 9 ай бұрын

AAA+++Bedford, Texas

@robspierre3446 10 ай бұрын

Wow props D.M. keep it up.

@jimcypher 10 ай бұрын

Robert Maheu was the OG "Mission: Impossible" force dude in cahhots with the CIA's "Health Alteration Committee"...

@closeoutsaleusa5322 6 ай бұрын

I'm a third generation Idahoan. I just finished reading this book a few days ago. All the restrictions the Church Committee imposed upon the CIA and U.S. Intelligence was washed away after Reagan appointed William Casey as CIA Director. We went right back to Allen Dulles and his thugery. All the instability in the world since WWII can be linked to U.S. Intelligence. The same crap they pulled on countries in South and Central America, Asia, Italy and the middle east have been pulled on the United States. Ever wonder why no one was arrested during the riots of 2020 except on January 6th? Now do you get it? We have a SECRET GOVERNMENT... and they have been running the show for decades.

@BriarLeaf00 10 ай бұрын

I don't like this guy's premise that, if there were communists in the civil rights movement JEH's repression would have been justified. He uses the non-presence of communists as some sort of badge of authenticity, I'm curious what his thoughts on the Panthers are.

@D.M.47 9 ай бұрын

I guess King's depression was because of his extra marital affairs and the Nobel Prize and having his wife and church members finding out. It reminds me of the Profumo affair with Christine Keeler in England. A lot of our political problems are because people can't control themselves.

@roybrantley9176 8 ай бұрын

The dropping of the first two nuclear booms on Japan put fear in the worlds hearts of people by the U.S.A. out of fear, slavery, there was no turning back, that others if not friends, would do the same to America, have shape the American way of thinking, like back then, that fear is still here play out to day...