Congress must assert its right to oversee the intelligence community
Accountability and oversight of the U.S. intelligence community is a fact of law. Congress and the Obama administration are hardly being intrusive when they assert their right to be fully and accurately briefed on intelligence activities.
U.S. intelligence operations require secrecy and operational flexibility, but the programs do not operate outside or above the law. All Americans need to know whose authority was invoked by Vice President Cheney when he ordered Congress be denied information the law says it must receive.
Congress and the White House can stay focused on the issues before them. These are not political hunting expeditions, but specific grievances grounded in a legal ...
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