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|spouses=Doris O. Pike Barbe Bonjour | |spouses=Doris O. Pike Barbe Bonjour | ||
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|alma_mater=Princeton University, Columbia Law School | |alma_mater=Princeton University, Columbia Law School | ||
| − | |birth_date=1921 | + | |birth_date=August 31, 1921 |
|birth_place=Riverhead, New York | |birth_place=Riverhead, New York | ||
| − | |death_date=2014 | + | |death_date=January 20, 2014 |
|death_place=Vero Beach, Florida | |death_place=Vero Beach, Florida | ||
|religion=Congregationalist | |religion=Congregationalist | ||
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| + | '''Otis Grey Pike''' was an American [[lawyer]] and [[politician]] who served nine terms as a [[US/Democratic Party|Democratic member]] of the United States [[House of Representatives]] from [[1961]] to [[1979]]. | ||
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| + | ==Career== | ||
| + | {{FA|Pike Committee}} | ||
| + | Otis Pike led the [[Pike Committee]], the [[House of Representatives]]: "most intensive and threatening hearings into US intelligence community abuses, far more radical and revealing than the better-known [[Church Committee]]’s [[Senate]] hearings that took place at the same time".<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140419112304/http://pando.com/2014/02/04/the-first-congressman-to-battle-the-nsa-is-dead-no-one-noticed-no-one-cares/ saved at [https://archive.ph/qFdW9 Archive.is]</ref> | ||
| + | {{QB|"Pike was less interested in sensational scandals like Church’s poison darts and foreign assassination plots than he was in getting to the guts of the intelligence apparatus, its power, its funding, its purpose. He asked questions never asked or answered since the start of the Cold War: What was America’s intelligence budget? What was the purpose of the CIA, NSA and other intelligence agencies and programs? Were they succeeding by their own standards? Were taxpayers getting their money’s worth? Were they making America safer?"}} | ||
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|text=Pike will pay for this, you wait and see — we’ll destroy him for this. | |text=Pike will pay for this, you wait and see — we’ll destroy him for this. | ||
| − | | | + | |source_URL=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705045101/http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=civilliberties_105#civilliberties_105 |
|authors=Mitchell Rogovin | |authors=Mitchell Rogovin | ||
|note=(CIA special counsel) | |note=(CIA special counsel) | ||
| − | |date=1976}} | + | |date=1976 |
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| + | ==Death== | ||
| + | Pike died at a hospice in Florida after an illness in January 2014.<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ny-rep-otis-pike-dies-92-florida-21601601</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/otis-g-pike-maverick-ny-congressman-dies-at-92/2014/01/20/1e9f6bf2-7af2-11e3-8963-b4b654bcc9b2_story.html</ref> | ||
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| Born | August 31, 1921 Riverhead, New York | |||||||||
| Died | January 20, 2014 (Age 92) Vero Beach, Florida | |||||||||
| Alma mater | Princeton University, Columbia Law School | |||||||||
| Religion | Congregationalist | |||||||||
| Children | 3 | |||||||||
| Spouse | Doris O. Pike Barbe Bonjour | |||||||||
| Member of | Pike Committee | |||||||||
| Party | Democratic | |||||||||
The first congressman to battle the NSA
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Otis Grey Pike was an American lawyer and politician who served nine terms as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1961 to 1979.
Career
- Full article: Pike Committee
- Full article: Pike Committee
Otis Pike led the Pike Committee, the House of Representatives: "most intensive and threatening hearings into US intelligence community abuses, far more radical and revealing than the better-known Church Committee’s Senate hearings that took place at the same time".[1]
"Pike was less interested in sensational scandals like Church’s poison darts and foreign assassination plots than he was in getting to the guts of the intelligence apparatus, its power, its funding, its purpose. He asked questions never asked or answered since the start of the Cold War: What was America’s intelligence budget? What was the purpose of the CIA, NSA and other intelligence agencies and programs? Were they succeeding by their own standards? Were taxpayers getting their money’s worth? Were they making America safer?"
“Pike will pay for this, you wait and see — we’ll destroy him for this.”
Mitchell Rogovin (1976) [2]
(CIA special counsel)
Death
Pike died at a hospice in Florida after an illness in January 2014.[3][4]
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140419112304/http://pando.com/2014/02/04/the-first-congressman-to-battle-the-nsa-is-dead-no-one-noticed-no-one-cares/ saved at Archive.is
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20100705045101/http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=civilliberties_105#civilliberties_105
- ↑ https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ny-rep-otis-pike-dies-92-florida-21601601
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/otis-g-pike-maverick-ny-congressman-dies-at-92/2014/01/20/1e9f6bf2-7af2-11e3-8963-b4b654bcc9b2_story.html
