and individuals in American journalism." R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., editor of the conservative magazine The American Spectator, wrote that the committee "betrayed CIA agents and operations." The committee had not received names, so had none to release, as confirmed by later CIA director George H. W. Bush. However, Senator Jim McClure used the allegation in the 1980 election, when Church was defeated. The Committee's work has more recently been criticized after the September 11 attacks, for leading to legislation reducing the ability of the CIA to gather human intelligence. In response to such criticism, the chief counsel of the committee, Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr., retorted with a book co-authored by Aziz Z. Huq, denouncing the Bush administration's use of 9/11 to make "monarchist claims" that are "unprecedented on this side of the North Atlantic". In September 2006, the University of Kentucky hosted a forum called "Who's Watching the Spies? Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans", bringing together two Democratic committee members, former Vice President of the United States Walter Mondale and former US Senator Walter "Dee" Huddleston of Kentucky, and Schwarz to discuss the committee's work, its historical impact, and how it pertains to today's society. See also COINTELPRO FBI–King suicide letter Hope Commission (established to investigate Australia's intelligence agencies) House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Hughes–Ryan Amendment Human rights violations by the CIA Operation Gladio (included in the classified part of the report) Operation Mockingbird Pike Committee Presidential Emergency Action Documents Project MKUltra Project Mockingbird Project SHAMROCK Rockefeller Commission The Shadow Factory Surveillance abuse Unethical human experimentation in the United States Special Activities Center (CIA) References Further reading External links Church Committee reports (Assassination Archives and Research Center) National Security Agency Tracking of U.S. Citizens – "Questionable Practices" from 1960s & 1970s published by the National Security Archive Church Report: Covert Action in Chile 1963-1973 (US Dept. of State) Interviews with William Colby and Richard Helms from cia.gov Recollections from the Church Committee's Investigation of NSA from cia.gov Church Committee Reports (Mary Ferrell Foundation) Church Committee Report On Diem Coup Flashback: A Look Back at the Church Committee’s Investigation into CIA, FBI Misuse of Power The Church Committee: Idaho's Reaction to Its Senator's Involvement in the Investigation of the Intelligence Community Central Intelligence Agency operations Reports of the United States government Investigations and hearings of the United States Congress Defunct committees of