Father Bill Davis discusses the current state of affairs regarding the Christic Institutes highly publicised legal battles with the wake of the Iran-Contra affair. He examines the defeat of HR 1511, a bill to destroy the RICO law retroactively, thus undermining all the Christic Institutes work. He goes on to discuss Senate Bill 2834, a clause of which would permit the President and the CIA to act secretly with any kind of funding without Congressional oversight. He concludes with 30 minutes of questions from the listeners.|THE CHRISTIC INSITUTE FIGHTS ON : AN UPDATE / Father Bill Davis| interviewed by Roy Tuckman. Davis discusses the current state of affairs regarding the Christic Institutes highly publicised legal battles in the wake of the Iran-Contra affair. He examines the defeat of HR 1511, a bill which would have destroyed the RICO law retroactively, thus undermining all the the Christic Institutes work. He goes on to discuss Senate Bill 2834, a clause of which would permit the President and the ICA to act secretly with any kind of funding without Congressional oversight. Concludes with 30 minutes of questions from the listeners. RECORDED: KPFK, 20 Sept. 1990.
