Oversight of U.S. Government Intelligence Functions: Hearings Before the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 535 páginas |
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Página 311 - the best of intentions often produce the greatest dangers to individual liberty. As Supreme Court Justice Brandeis once observed: "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasions of their liberty by evil-minded
Página 509 - for the transaction of business, except that the joint committee may fix a lesser number as a quorum for the purpose of taking testimony. Vacancies in the membership of the joint committee shall not affect the power of the remaining members to execute the functions of the joint committee and shall be filled in the same manner as in the
Página 357 - Professional staff members authorized by this subsection shall be appointed on a permanent basis, without, regard to political affiliation and solely on the basis of fitness to perform the duties of their respective positions. Moreover, the best Senate staffs have at least a few persons of long service thereby providing continuity and reducing the possibility of legislative error.
Página 511 - the same political party. (b) Vacancies in the membership of the joint committee shall not affect the power of the remaining members to execute the functions of the joint committee, and shall be filled in the same manner as in the
Página 311 - of their liberty by evil-minded rules. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." Relying on this historical judgment, the Supreme Court held in the 1972 Keith
Página 470 - part of the Atomic Energy Act funnels the information to the committee. Perhaps more important for our purposes, however, is a latter portion of that same section which provides that: The Members of the Joint Committee who are Members of the Senate shall from time to time report to the Senate * * * Second: I think it
Página 508 - United States for the District of Columbia shall have original jurisdiction, without regard to the sum or value of the matter in controversy, of any civil action heretofore or hereafter brought by the joint committee to enforce or secure a declaration concerning the validity of any subpena heretofore or hereafter
Página 507 - to be appointed by the minority leader of the House of Representatives. (b) The joint committee shall select a chairman and a vice chairman from among its members. (c) Vacancies in the membership of the joint committee shall not affect the power of the remaining members to execute the functions of the joint committee and shall lie filled in the same manner as in the
Página 511 - The vice chairman shall act in the place and stead of the chairman in the absence of the chairman. The chairmanship shall alternate between the Senate and the House of Representatives with each Congress and the chairman shall be selected by the members
Página 496 - It may be possible to satisfy the court, from all the circumstances of the case, that there is a reasonable danger that compulsion of the evidence will expose military matters which, in the interest of national security, should not be divulged. When this