James Risen has won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting twice. The first win was as part of a New York Times reporting team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting for ...

Investigative reporter James Risen has been covering American intelligence agencies—the CIA and the NSA, among others—since the 1990s. Now he’s written The Last Honest Man, a biography of Frank Church ...

Aides to the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities, created in 1975, wrote to Representative Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican leading the new ...

Intelligence committees have perfected the art of plausibly denying responsibility for controversial operations, all the while asking for greater “oversight.” Forty years ago, Senator Frank Church ...