Exhibit 303

Separate Views of Senator John G. Tower, Vice Chairman (Church Committee, Book II)

Exhibit 303 · Congressional report

Separate Views of Senator John G. Tower, Vice Chairman (Church Committee, Book II)

I believe that the 183 separate recommendations proposing new detailed statutes and reporting procedures not only exceed the number and scope of documented abuses, but represent over-reaction.

Vice Chairman's dissent from the breadth of the recommendations.

Source: United States Senate
Date: 26 April 1976
Quoted from: Book II, Separate Views of Senator Tower, p. 369 (PDF p. 378)
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.