Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Yanayi ya tsananta a tsakiyar shekarun 1970, a lokacin Watergate. Babban fasalin rayuwar siyasa a wannan lokacin shine ƙoƙarin Majalisar don tabbatar da kula da Shugabancin Amurka da reshen zartarwa na gwamnatin Amurka. Bayyanawa game da ayyukan CIA na baya, kamar kisan kai da yunkurin kisan kai na shugabannin kasashen waje (musamman Fidel Castro da Rafael Trujillo) da kuma leken asiri na cikin gida ba bisa ka'ida ba ga 'yan asalin Amurka, sun ba da damar da za a kara wa Majalisa kula da ayyukan leken asirin Amurka. Haɗin CIA a cikin fataucin cocaine na Contra a Nicaragua da kuma haɗin kai a cikin ayyukan 'yan sanda a El Salvador
da Honduras kuma sun fito fili.