Congressional Oversight

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Moderator:

Diana Mallory, Secrecy and U.S. Foreign Policy Colloquium

Panelists:

The Findings Process in the Iran/Contra Affair
Professor Philip Bobbitt
University of Texas Law School; Legal Counsel, Senate Intelligence Committee, Iran/Contra Hearings; author, Constitutional Fate; Democracy and Deterrence

Has Congressional Oversight of Intelligence Worked?
Senator Thomas Eagleton (Dem. Missouri, 1969-87)
Former member, Senate Intelligence Committee; author, War and Presidential Power: A Chronicle of Congressional Surrender

Accountability and the 'Quiet Option'
Professor Loch Johnson
University of Georgia; investigator, the Church Committee on Intelligence; former Staff Director, Subcommittee on Oversight, Committee on Intelligence, House of Representatives; author, A Season of Inquiry: The Senate Intelligence Investigation

The Political Dynamics of Congressional Oversight of Covert Action
Mr. Bernard MacMahon
Former Staff Director, Senate Intelligence Committee, 1985-87, directed their Iran/Contra investigations; former Executive Director, CIA, 1977-79; Executive Director, ICF, Inc.

Dr. Constantine Menges
Responsible Oversight and Partisan Differences About U.S. Foreign Policy Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Latin American Affairs, National Security Council, 1983-85; National Intelligence Officer, Latin America, CIA, 1981-83

Congressional Uses of Intelligence
Mr. William Miller
Chairman, the American Committee on United States-Soviet Relations; former Staff Director, Church Committee on Intelligence

Interlocutor:

Mr. Bob Woodward
Assistant Managing Editor, Investigative Staff, The Washington Post; author, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA; co-author, All the President's Men