Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weekend polishing the President's reform program, but the broad outlines were set by Ford last week on the basis of five months of research by his staff. Ford intends to unveil measures that will preserve much of the agencies' structure but subject them to more Executive oversight and control. Highlights...
...will give sweeping new investigative powers to the inspectors general in the major agencies-CIA, FBI, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. They will be charged with reporting abuses to a new oversight board that Ford will create in the Executive Branch. It will consist of a small number of distinguished citizens, perhaps only three or four, who will relay reports of abuses to Ford and the U.S. Attorney General for disciplinary action or even prosecution. The board does not yet have a name. One aide suggested the Foreign...
...prevent the CIA from undertaking further actions without scrutiny, and it should also strip the Ford administration of its power to set policy autonomously. These solutions are admittedly incomplete, since Congress is by no means a direct representative of the American people, and has consistently failed to exercise the oversight powers it already possesses to control the use of the CIA by the executive branch. Nevertheless these steps would make a significant contribution toward restoring foreign policy decision-making to public scrutiny and control...
Luxembourg's spooks-like the CIA-are currently under fire in the grand duchy's parliament, and may soon be put under an oversight committee in the legislature. Socialist Jean Gremling, who might be called Luxembourg's Frank Church, argues that "we don't want to be part of the silent war between secret service organizations here." That, of course, is just one more confirmation that the silent war in the grand duchy is uncomfortably real...
...leak dramatically illustrated the difficulties that Congress and the Administration face in working out guidelines for legislative oversight of the CIA. The decision to help finance anti-Communist forces in Italy was strongly endorsed by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Said a Government official: "Henry's attitude toward this one has been 'Damn the congressional critics and leakers-full steam ahead...