Exhibit 302

Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans (Church Committee, Book II), S. Rep. 94-755

Exhibit 302 · Congressional report

Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans (Church Committee, Book II), S. Rep. 94-755

The Committee's fundamental conclusion is that intelligence activities have undermined the constitutional rights of citizens and that they have done so primarily because checks and balances designed by the framers of the Constitution to assure accountability have not been applied.

Findings, conclusions and 96 domestic recommendations, with Separate Views of Senators Tower, Baker, Goldwater and Mathias. Includes the media manipulation findings on the FBI and the recommendation for judicial warrants.

Source: United States Senate, Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations
Date: 26 April 1976
Quoted from: Book II, Part IV.A, p. 289 (PDF p. 302)
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.