Christopher H Pyle was born on 1939 and is a journalist and professor emeritus of Politics at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
15 Facts About Christopher Pyle
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Christopher Pyle testified to Congress about the use of military intelligence against civilians, worked for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, as well as the Senate Committee on Government Oversight.
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Christopher Pyle is the author of several books and Congressional reports on military intelligence and constitutional rights, and has testified numerous times before the US Congress on issues of deportation and extradition.
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In January and July 1970, Christopher Pyle disclosed the Army's spying in articles that appeared in a new publication, Washington Monthly.
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Senator Sam Ervin investigated the Army's spying as chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, and Christopher Pyle worked as an analyst for his committee, testifying to Congress about his own findings.
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Christopher Pyle served as a consultant for three Congressional committees in this area: the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights on the Judiciary Committee, the Committee on Government Operations, the Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities.
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Christopher Pyle served as a consultant to the Office of Technology Assessment as well as a constitutional expert before Senate and House Judiciary committees and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
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Christopher Pyle taught at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice from 1973 to 1976.
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Christopher Pyle joined the faculty of Mount Holyoke College in 1976.
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Christopher Pyle taught constitutional law, constitutional history, civil liberties, American politics, American political thought, and American bureaucratic politics; he chaired Mount Holyoke's programs in American Studies and Complex Organizations and the Department of Politics.
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Christopher Pyle has taught politics to intelligence agents in the army; to policemen at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice; undergraduates at University College, Dublin; law students at Harvard University, and graduate students at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
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Christopher Pyle is a member of the board of directors of the ACLU of Massachusetts.
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In 2004, Christopher Pyle was elected chairman of the board of the Petra Foundation, a national organization that recognizes and assists "unsung heroes" who make extraordinary contributions to social justice.
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Books: Christopher Pyle has written several books on military surveillance, extradition, and issues related to the use of torture in intelligence gathering in the US war on terror, including:.
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Articles: Christopher Pyle has written for hundreds of newspapers, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times, as well as magazines and journals including The Nation, Washington Monthly, Civil Liberties Review, Foreign Policy, American Political Science Review, Political Science Quarterly, and Boston University Law Review, including:.