Exhibit 304

Individual Views of Senator Goldwater (Church Committee, Book II)

Exhibit 304 · Congressional report

Individual Views of Senator Goldwater (Church Committee, Book II)

the clamor for statutes is premature and ill-advised.

Dissent arguing the report overreaches and prefers statute to executive order.

Source: United States Senate
Date: 26 April 1976
Quoted from: Book II, Individual Views of Senator Goldwater, p. 390 (PDF p. 398)
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sites-default-files-94755-ii.pdf
Accessed: 2026-11-09
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Finding DEF-6.2: Primary record The Church Committee concluded that intelligence activities undermined citizens' constitutional rights primarily because checks and balances had not been applied. Congress then created the Senate and House intelligence committees and enacted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, with a seven-judge court.