Christopher Pyle
Encyclopedia
Christopher H. Pyle is a Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College
in South Hadley, Massachusetts. He is the author of several books and Congressional reports, and has testified numerous times before the U.S. Congress on issues of deportation and extradition.
January 1970 began the era we now call Watergate in this sense: Senator Sam Ervin
, who led
the Watergate investigation, got his start investigating the Army's
spying, and Pyle worked as an investigator for Ervin's Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights; Ervin's further investigations, together with the Church Committee
inquiries, lead to the founding of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Pyle consulted for three Congressional committees.
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the first member of the Seven Sisters colleges, and served as a model for some of the others...
in South Hadley, Massachusetts. He is the author of several books and Congressional reports, and has testified numerous times before the U.S. Congress on issues of deportation and extradition.
Investigations
Christopher H. Pyle learned while in the U.S. Army in the 1960s that "Army intelligence had 1,500 plainclothes agents watching every demonstration of 20 people or more throughout the United States" http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/19/1515212 http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Books/story?id=424002&page=1. His disclosure of the Army's spying inJanuary 1970 began the era we now call Watergate in this sense: Senator Sam Ervin
Sam Ervin
Samuel James "Sam" Ervin Jr. was a Democratic Senator from North Carolina from 1954 until 1974. A native of Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina, he liked to call himself a "country lawyer", and often told humorous stories in his Southern drawl...
, who led
the Watergate investigation, got his start investigating the Army's
spying, and Pyle worked as an investigator for Ervin's Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights; Ervin's further investigations, together with the Church Committee
Church Committee
The Church Committee is the common term referring to the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, a U.S. Senate committee chaired by Senator Frank Church in 1975. A precursor to the U.S...
inquiries, lead to the founding of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Pyle consulted for three Congressional committees.
Selected works
- Extradition, Politics, and Human Rights (2001) ISBN 1-56639-823-1
- The President, Congress and the Constitution (1984) ISBN 0-02-925380-2
- Military surveillance of civilian politics, 1967-1970 (American legal and constitutional history) (Garland Press, 1986) ISBN 0-8240-8290-7
- Getting Away with Torture: Secret Government, War Crimes, and the Rule of Law (Potomac Books Inc. (2009) ISBN 1597973874; ISBN 978-1597973878
Articles
- Be afraid, be very afraid, of spying by U.S. Army
- Extradition, Politics, and Human Rights
- The Intelligence Revolution