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Excerpt from The Erosion of Law Enforcement Intelligence, Capabilities, Public Security, Vol. 1: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Fifth Congress, First Session The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a.m., in room 2228, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Senator Orrin G. Hatch (acting chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senator Thurmond. Staff present: Richard L. Schultz, counsel; David Martin, analyst; Alfonso L. Tarabochia, investigator; and Robert J. Short, investigator. Senator Hatch. I will call the meeting of the Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures to order. I have to apologize for being late. I had to give a speech this morning to two or three hundred of our interns on Capitol Hill. It was supposed to take an hour and I cut it short - 15 minutes as it was. Then I still had a rough time walking from the Cannon Building over to here. Let me just begin by saying that today's hearing has to do with the nationwide erosion of law enforcement intelligence capabilities and the impact this erosion has had on the ability of our law enforcement agencies to protect the public. This hearing has been organized by the internal security unit of the Senate Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures. It represents a continuation of a series of hearings on the same subject held in 1975 and 1976 under the auspices of the former Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security. The many high-ranking law enforcement officials who testified during the course of these hearings were agreed that there had been abuses in the past and that there was a need for carefully drawn guidelines in order to prevent the recurrence of such abuses. Perhaps it is unavoidable that the pendulum should swing violently after there has been a disclosure of abuses. The testimony presented by the witnesses, however, suggested that the