HCPC Research Fellow Talk: "Honorable Men and Rogue Elephants"

October 18, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Hamilton Library 301

Hamilton Library鈥檚 2025-26 好色先生网站驶i Congressional Papers Collection Research Fellow, Daniel De Varona Brennan, will give his talk, 鈥淗onorable Men and Rogue Elephants: The Origins and Implications of Congressional Oversight of the CIA,鈥 at 2 p.m. on Oct. 18 in Hamilton Library Room Room 301. The hybrid event will also be available on Zoom.

Brennan will explore how the U.S. Congress, in the wake of the 1947 National Security Act, asserted oversight over the intelligence community. He will highlight the pivotal role Senator Daniel K. Inouye played as the first Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, shaping a framework of accountability that endures to this day. Brennan is a visiting scholar who is using Senator Inouye鈥檚 papers, which are housed in the 好色先生网站驶i Congressional Papers Collection at Hamilton Library, to conduct this research.

About the Speaker
Daniel De Varona Brennan is a Predoctoral Fellow with the America in the World Consortium at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University鈥檚 School of Advanced International Studies. He is also a DPhil Candidate at Oriel College, University of Oxford. His dissertation examines the emergence and evolution of U.S. Congressional Oversight of Intelligence during the Cold War.

Registration
To attend in person, please register by sending an email to archives@hawaii.edu with your name, and those of your guests, if you will be bringing anyone else. To join by zoom 鈥 please to register prior to the event.


Event Sponsor
Daniel K. Inouye Institute, Hamilton Library, College of Social Sciences, 驶Ulu驶ulu Moving Image Archive, University of 好色先生网站i

More Information
Dawn Sueoka, 808-956-6995, archives@hawaii.edu,

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