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Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, named to head the CIA, is expected to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee today, where he will be grilled on the extent of the National Security Agency's recently revealed surveillance program. But many of the committee's questions may be best answered by the commander-in-chief and by congressional leadership.
The oversight committees of Congress, including Senate Intelligence, apparently do not have oversight of this nation's spy programs - most members do not appear to know some of the programs exist. Even if the program described by USA Today last week, in which the NSA had built a database of millions of people's domestic calling records, is legal and necessary, domestic spying to root out terrorism deserves extraordinarily careful controls. That's why these congressional committees are there and why the White House's decision to largely shut them out raises suspicions.See the full content of this document
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Underachieving Oversight
The response from the administration that a few key members of Congress kn...
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