about because of the series of articles about activities by the intelligence community within the united uirsch in ten by cyh the post-watergate hearings, resignation of president nixon and still continuing concern about the vietnam war and the thought that the intelligence agencies were being directed against u.s. citizens led to some public concern and response from both the senate and the house to establish special committees to look at the intelligence activities overall. it was in that context that i think you need to place the activities of the committee and the response to things that happened during the vietnam war, the civil rights movement and other political activities led to the creation of these two committees. >> some people thought we would just expose more bad things about the nixon administration, but our single most important finding was to say that every one of six presidents starting with franklin roosevelt and running through nixon, four democrats and two republicans, every one of them abused their secret powers, and by making that broad finding, it helped with the internal