OCTOBER 18, 2025
Dear Friends,
We are pleased to invite you to a timely and thought-provoking lecture by Daniel De Varona Brennan, the 2025–2026 Hawaiʻi Congressional Papers Collection Research Fellow. The lecture “Honorable Men and Rogue Elephants: The Origins and Implications of Congressional Oversight of the CIA” will be held on Saturday, October 18, 2025 from 2:00 – 3:30 PM HST at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa – Hamilton Library, Room 301. You may also join virtually via Zoom.
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 – please click here to register prior to the event.
Brennon will be visiting Hawaii and using Senator Inouye’s papers that are housed in the UH Congressional Papers Archive at Hamilton Library as part of this research.
This hybrid event will explore how the U.S. Congress, in the wake of the 1947 National Security Act, asserted oversight over the intelligence community. Brennan will highlight the pivotal role that 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.
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’s 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.
This program is co-sponsored by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hamilton Library, the UH College of Social Sciences, and the Daniel K. Inouye Institute.
We hope you will join us in this meaningful conversation, continuing Senator Inouye’s legacy of thoughtful leadership, integrity, and service.
Aloha,
Jennifer and Sara
