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Fantasy general 2 invasion review7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() In 2015, Risen called the Obama administration “the greatest enemy of press freedom in a generation”. Eric Holder, Barack Obama’s attorney general, backed off. He endured a seven-year legal battle with the Bush and Obama justice departments, for refusing to name a source. ![]() Risen was also part of the New York Times team that snagged a Pulitzer in the aftermath of September 11. In 2006, Risen won the Pulitzer prize for his coverage of George W Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program. The Last Honest Man is a gem, marbled with scoop, laden with interviews. One subheading in the Church committee’s interim report bears the title: “The Question of Whether the Assassination Operation Involving Underworld Figures Was Known About by Attorney General Kennedy or President Kennedy as Revealed by Investigations of Giancana and Rosselli”.Īgainst this grizzly but intriguing backdrop, Risen’s book is aptly subtitled: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys – And One Senator’s Fight to Save Democracy. Before John Rosselli, another mobster, could make a third appearance, his decomposed body turned up in a steel fuel drum near Miami. Giancana was murdered before he testified. So did the personal ties that bound John F Kennedy, mob boss Sam Giancana and their shared mistress, Judith Campbell Exner. A plot to kill Fidel Castro, with an assist from organized crime, made headlines. Political assassinations, covert operations and domestic surveillance finally received scrutiny and oversight. ![]() Amid the cold war, in the aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate, Congress grappled with the balance between civil liberties and national security, executive prerogative and congressional authority. “True oversight would have to wait until 1975, and the arrival on the national stage of a senator from Idaho, Frank Church.”įor 16 months, Church and his committee scrutinized the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency and their many abuses. “For decades … the CIA’s operations faced only glancing scrutiny from the White House, and virtually none from Congress,” Risen writes. ![]()
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