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A hearing is a meeting or session of a Senate, House, joint, or special committee of Congress, usually open to the public, to obtain information and opinions on proposed legislation, conduct an investigation, or evaluate/oversee the activities of a government department or the implementation of a Federal law. In addition, hearings may also be purely exploratory in nature, providing testimony and data about topics of current interest.[1]
Some hearings have exposed deep state activities, although normally tending towards limited hangouts.
- The 1950-51 Kafauver Committee into organized crime was sabotaged with the help of sexual blackmail.
Examples
| Page name | Description |
|---|---|
| Church Committee | Set up as a result of growing concern about the activities of the CIA, and led to revelations about many of the dark secrets within the CIA. As a result, it contributed impetus to the offshoring of the US deep state. |
| House Un-American Activities Committee | |
| Kerry Committee | Their finding, that the CIA was involved in both cocaine and marijuana trafficking, was more or less ignored. |
| McCormack-Dickstein Committee | Investigated The Business Plot 1934 coup plot, but was criticized by John Spivak, Smedley Butler and others, for not revealing – let alone questioning – the influential men behind the plot. |
| Nye Committee | Investigated the financial and banking interests that underlay the United States' involvement in World War I and the operations and profits of the industrial and commercial firms supplying munitions to the Allies and to the United States. |
| Pecora Commission | Senate inquiry to investigate the causes of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. |
| Pike Committee | One of the 3 important US intelligence committees during the late 1970s revealing deep state activities. |
| Pujo Committee | A US congressional subcommittee that probed the Money Trust. The original chair, Arsene Pujo, withdrew after about a month, so it was actually chaired by Hubert D. Stephens. |
| Reece Committee | |
| Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations | The Committee interviewed dozens of expert witnesses to look at the power and practices of U.S. corporations in the developing world. |
| Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights | A 1970s subcommittee on privacy in the House of Representatives targeting the NSA's domestic spying program. |
| US/Senate/Watergate Committee | A group officially intended to investigate wrongdoing in connection to Watergate. |
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