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...Select Committee on Intelligence had not been "adequately informed in a timely manner." Casey assured Senators that the mining operation had been halted, and that both the Senate and House intelligence committees would be notified of any similar operations in the future. His efforts mollified Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, who withdrew his resignation as vice chairman of the Senate intelligence committee. Casey and the Senate committee also agreed on the need for "more thorough and effective oversight procedures, especially in the area of covert action...
...that the CIA director once went so far as to present a plan for a possible eventual partition of Nicaragua be tween a Sandinista regime in the west and a contra-ruled state in the east. Though the congressional committees cannot veto any CIA activities outright, they can, in Moynihan's words, "push and pull" the agency away from dubious schemes (as happened with the proposal to partition Nicaragua). Should that fail, the committees can secretly write into appropriations bills provisions for denying funds...
...they were remiss in not insisting on a briefing on CIA activities in Nicaragua early this year, and for failing to question Casey on references he made to the mining when he did meet with them twice in March. (The House Intelligence Committee was briefed on Jan. 31.) Still, Moynihan and others contend that Casey, at minimum, did not fulfill the command of the 1980 law that he apprise the committees of even "any significant anticipated intelligence activity." The mining had begun about a month before the House Intelligence Committee briefing. Indeed, raids on Puerto Sandino last Sept...
...Senate Intelligence Committee has called a meeting for Thursday at which, Moynihan pledges, Casey will be asked "tough questions" about whatever operations the CIA may be conducting or planning in Nicaragua. One idea being floated by some Senate Intelligence Committee staffers is to require the CIA to certify weekly that it is not supporting any contra activities that have not been disclosed to Congress...
...other hand, asserts that "Casey did mention mining but in the midst of a list of other actions the contras were taking. At no time did he say the CIA was directly involved in mining or that President Reagan had authorized it." New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan is pedantically precise. Says he: "The reference on March 8 consisted of one sentence of 27 words, and the word mines appeared once. On March 13, there was another sentence of 26 words and the word mines appeared once. We are not meant to pick up the veiled