NYTimes: Spy Agencies Under Heaviest Scrutiny Since Abuse Scandal of the ’70s

NYTimes: Spy Agencies Under Heaviest Scrutiny Since Abuse Scandal of the ’70s by Scott Shane:

American intelligence agencies, which experienced a boom in financing and public support in the decade after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, have entered a period of broad public scrutiny and skepticism with few precedents since the exposure of spying secrets and abuses led to the historic investigation by the Senate’s Church Committee nearly four decades ago.