For the re-opening of investigative hearings into the Counter-Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) and other intelligence and law enforcement programs and agencies, and an expansion of those hearings to include reneweal of previously curtailed abuses, and other activities sanctioned by the USA PATRIOT ACT.

Declares that Congress will release classified documents that do not involve compromise of an existing source, agent, or method and will renew and administer hearings or form a select oversight committee to: (1) investigate past abuses and legal relief due to the victims of abuses carried out under COINTELPRO (the Counter Intelligence Program carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]) and related programs; and (2) identify any renewal of similar abuses following the 9/11 attacks by federal or local agencies or executive branch orders or under the USA PATRIOT Act. Expresses the intent to renew legislation that will end such abuses and fully protect the rights of all U.S. citizens and others who fall under the protection of U.S. laws and international laws and treaties to which the United States is a signatory.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1026 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1026

     For the re-opening of investigative hearings into the Counter-
   Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) and other intelligence and law 
 enforcement programs and agencies, and an expansion of those hearings 
to include renewal of previously curtailed abuses, and other activities 
                   sanctioned by the USA PATRIOT ACT.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 20, 2006

Ms. McKinney submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
    the Select Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and in 
    addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                               RESOLUTION


 
     For the re-opening of investigative hearings into the Counter-
   Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) and other intelligence and law 
 enforcement programs and agencies, and an expansion of those hearings 
to include renewal of previously curtailed abuses, and other activities 
                   sanctioned by the USA PATRIOT ACT.

Whereas the Congress affirms both constitutional and international law and all 
        existing legislation and resolutions that protect, defend, and assert 
        human and civil rights;
Whereas the Congress denounces the criminalization of political expression;
Whereas the Congress condemns any abuse of human, civil, and constitutional 
        rights undertaken by Federal, State, or local law enforcement agencies 
        and agents;
Whereas the Congress acknowledges the violations of law perpetrated by the U.S. 
        Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted under the Counter 
        Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), and other intelligence agency and law 
        enforcement programs such as CHAOS, GARDEN PLOT, CABLE SPLICER, LANTERN 
        SPIKE, and others, which targeted the leadership of progressive social 
        movements and implemented extra-constitutional aggregations of executive 
        power or martial law;
Whereas the Congress recognizes the findings of the Church Committee which 
        identified COINTELPRO and related activities as an illegal, extra-
        judicial effort designed to disrupt and destroy opposition groups and 
        movements, and anti-war protest, among others;
Whereas the Congress regrets that the government investigations stopped short of 
        making recommendations for relief for the victims of COINTELPRO and, as 
        a result, dozens still remain imprisoned, unjustly incarcerated as the 
        result of FBI operations to ``neutralize'' the leadership of the civil 
        rights movement; and
Whereas the Congress recognizes that such abuses have been renewed in the United 
        States under special Executive branch orders and mandates following the 
        attacks of 9/11, by existing and newly formed intelligence, security and 
        law enforcement agencies including but not limited to the Defense 
        Intelligence Agency (DIA), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National 
        Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 
        Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Department of Homeland 
        Security (DHS), Transportation Security Agency (TSA), and Director of 
        National Intelligence (DNI), and by certain provisions of the USA 
        PATRIOT ACT and related legislation: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the U.S. Congress will release any related 
classified documents that do not involve compromise of an existing 
source, agent, or method, and renew and administer hearings by all 
appropriate committees and subcommittees of Congress, or through the 
formation of a select oversight committee to investigate the past 
abuses and appropriate legal relief due to the victims of such abuses 
carried out under COINTELPRO and related programs by other intelligence 
and law enforcement agencies, and to identify any renewal of similar 
abuses following the attacks of 9/11 by any Federal or local agencies 
or Executive branch orders, or under the provisions of the USA PATRIOT 
ACT; and
     Be it further resolved, That Congress intends to renew legislation 
that will end these abuses and fully protect the constitutional, civil, 
and human rights of all U.S. citizens and others who fall under the 
protection of our laws and international laws and treaties the United 
States is signatory to.
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