SLOTS' ON-AIR SIDEKICK FINDS THE CULPRIT

Just now, he blamed all our intelligence failures since the 70s on the Church Committee. According to PBS,

On January 27, 1975, the Senate, in the wake of the Watergate scandal and alarmed by recent allegations of intelligence service misdeeds, voted to establish an 11-member investigating body along the lines of the recently concluded Watergate Committee.

The resulting body was chaired by Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho). Additional members of the Church Committee, or more formally the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities included its Vice-Chairman, John Tower (R-TX), Walter Mondale (D-MN) and prominent conservative, Barry Goldwater (R-AZ).

Over nine months, the committee interviewed over 800 officials, held 250 executive and 21 public hearings, probing widespread intelligence abuses by the CIA, FBI and NSA.

Among the abuses were using the IRS and the NSA against political dissidents. Arguably the worst abuse against Americans was the FBI's COINTELPRO program.