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Streamlining Congressional Oversight of the CIA |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Ray S. Cline |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 2,004 Words, 12,369 Characters |
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Clearly there is a great deal of restiveness and confusion in Congress now about how to deal with the armed forces and the intelligence community in light of America's spectacular success in using both high-technology intelligence systems and military power in the Persian Gulf War. Demands are being made to reduce military budgets drastically and even to abolish the CIA.
The Senate usually has been more responsible in the oversight of intelligence, probably because it shares with the president the constitutional duty of ratifying foreign treaties. The House, on the other hand, has been rather frivolous in dealing with its oversight responsibilities from their inception with the original Otis G. Pike committee in 1975. For its own purposes, it tried to capitalize on the publicity Sen....
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...ut public attribution to the American government, so that we can do what is necessary in our national security interest to keep the United States safe and gain our foreign policy objectives. In a world that has many nations that have no scruples or restrictions on defeating legitimate American strategic purposes, the intelligence community has an important role to play in support of policy. vbcrlf
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