United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

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Seal of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

The United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is a committee of the United States House of Representatives, currently chaired by Mike Rogers. It is the primary committee in the U.S. House of Representatives charged with the oversight of the United States Intelligence Community, though it does share some jurisdiction with other committees in the House, including the Armed Services Committee for some matters dealing with the Department of Defense and the various branches of the U.S. military.

The committee was preceded by the Select Committee on Intelligence between 1975 and 1977. House Resolution 658 established the permanent select committee, which gave it status equal to a standing committee on July 14, 1977.

Oversight

The committee oversees all or part of the following executive branch departments and agencies:

Members

113th Congress

Majority	Minority
Mike Rogers, Michigan, Chair Mac Thornberry, Texas Jeff Miller, Florida Mike Conaway, Texas Peter King, New York Frank LoBiondo, New Jersey Devin Nunes, California Lynn Westmoreland, Georgia Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Tom Rooney, Florida Joe Heck, Nevada Mike Pompeo, Kansas	Dutch Ruppersberger, Maryland, Ranking Member Mike Thompson, California Jan Schakowsky, Illinois James Langevin, Rhode Island Adam Schiff, California Luis Gutiérrez, Illinois Ed Pastor, Arizona Jim Himes, Connecticut Terri Sewell, Alabama
Ex officio
John Boehner, Ohio	Nancy Pelosi, California

112th Congress

Majority	Minority
Mike Rogers, Michigan, Chair Mac Thornberry, Texas Sue Myrick, North Carolina Jeff Miller, Florida Mike Conaway, Texas Peter King, New York Frank LoBiondo, New Jersey Devin Nunes, California Lynn Westmoreland, Georgia Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Tom Rooney, Florida Joe Heck, Nevada	Dutch Ruppersberger, Maryland, Ranking Member Mike Thompson, California Jan Schakowsky, Illinois James Langevin, Rhode Island Adam Schiff, California Dan Boren, Oklahoma Luis Gutiérrez, Illinois Ben Chandler, Kentucky
Ex officio
John Boehner, Ohio	Nancy Pelosi, California

Source: 2011 Congressional Record, Vol. 157, Page H200

Subcommittees

Subcommittee	Chair	Ranking Member
Oversight	Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA)	Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)
Technical and Tactical Intelligence	Joe Heck (R-NV)	Adam Schiff (D-CA)
Terrorism, HUMINT, Analysis and Counterintelligence	Mike Conaway (R-TX)	Mike Thompson (D-CA)

Select Committee on Intelligence, 1975–1977

Prior to establishing the permanent select committee in 1977, the House of Representatives established the "Select Committee on Intelligence", commonly referred to as the "Pike Committee", so named after its last chairman, Otis G. Pike of New York. The select committee had originally been established in February 1975 under the chairmanship of Congressman Lucien Nedzi of Michigan. Following Nedzi's resignation in June, the committee was reconstituted with Pike as chair, in July 1975, with its mandate expiring January 31, 1976. Under Pike's chairmanship, the committee investigated illegal activities by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The final report of the Pike Committee was never officially published, due to Congressional opposition. However, unauthorized versions of the draft final report were leaked to the press. CBS News reporter Daniel Schorr was called to testify before Congress, but refused to divulge his source.^[1] Major portions of the report were published by The Village Voice, and a full copy of the draft was published in England.

Chairs

Select Committee Chairs

Lucien N. Nedzi (February 1975 – July 1975)
Otis G. Pike (July 1975 – January 1976)

Permanent Select Committee Chairs

Edward P. Boland (1977–1985)
Lee H. Hamilton (1985–1987)
Louis Stokes (1987–1989)
Anthony C. Beilenson (1989–1991)
David K. McCurdy (1991–1993)
Dan Glickman (1993–1995)
Larry Combest (1995–1997)
Porter Goss (1997–2004)
Peter Hoekstra (2004–2007)
Silvestre Reyes (2007–2011)
Mike Rogers (2011–present)

Notes

↑ U.S. House. Hearings Before the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. Investigation of Publication of Select Committee on Intelligence Report. 94th Congress, 2nd session. July 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28 and 29, September 8, 14, 15, 1976.

External links

Official site
The Pike Committee Investigations and the CIA
Congressional Directory: Main Page, Government Printing Office Online. Detailed listings of many aspects of previous memberships and sessions of Congress.
Open Congress Wiki
Pike Committee Reports
The Pike Committee Investigations and the CIA
Are all leaks good? The Pike Committee Report, Kissinger, and the Distortion of Events
Historical Dictionary of the Kurds: Pike Committee Report
Covert Action and the Pike Committee: 1975-76

v t e Current United States congressional committees

Senate (list)	Aging (Special) Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Appropriations Armed Services Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Budget Commerce, Science, and Transportation Energy and Natural Resources Environment and Public Works Ethics (Select) Finance Foreign Relations Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Indian Affairs Intelligence (Select) Judiciary Narcotics (Caucus) Rules and Administration Small Business and Entrepreneurship Veterans' Affairs

House (list)	Agriculture Appropriations Armed Services Budget Education and the Workforce Energy and Commerce Ethics Financial Services Foreign Affairs Homeland Security House Administration Intelligence (Permanent Select) Judiciary Natural Resources Oversight and Government Reform Rules Science, Space and Technology Small Business Transportation and Infrastructure Veterans' Affairs Ways and Means (Whole)

Joint (list)	(Conference) Economic Inaugural Ceremonies (Special) Library Printing Taxation

Defunct committees

v t e Major U.S. Intelligence Reforms

U.S. Legislation	National Security Act of 1947 (1947) Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (1978) National Intelligence Reorganization and Reform Act (1978) Patriot Act (2001) Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (2004)

U.S. Commissions	The First Hoover Commission The Second Hoover Commission (1953) The Rockefeller Commission (1975) Aspen-Brown Commission (1995) U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century (2001) Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (2005)

U.S. Committees	The Church Committee (1976) The Pike Committee (1976)

U.S. Executive Orders	EO 11905 (Ford) (1976) EO 12036 (Carter) (1978) EO 12333 (Reagan) (1981) EO 13355 (G.W. Bush) (2004) EO 13470 (G. W. Bush) (2008)

U.S. Investigations	The Murphey Investigation (1974) Iran-Contra Investigation (1987)

U.S. Reports	Eberstadt Report (1947) The Dulles–Jackson–Correa Report (1949) The Doolittle Report (1954) The Bruce-Lovett Report (1956) The Taylor Report (1961) The Kirkpatrick Report (1961) The Schlesinger Report (1971) Clifford/Cline Proposals (1976) Boren-McCurdy Proposals (1992) IC21 (1996) 9/11 Commission Report (2004)

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