Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exposure was undoubtedly healthy-up to a point. But in the case of the CIA, it also severely hampered the agency's effectiveness. This year, the committees may well establish guidelines for the conduct of both organizations and try to restore the long-neglected function of congressional oversight...
...whether the present Congress is willing to allow the Administration any kind of latitude in its foreign operations. Part of the opposition professed to quarrel with the covert nature of U.S. help to Angola. But in the world as it exists, some capacity for secret operations (under due congressional oversight) is essential. Besides, even had Angolan aid been made public from the start...
CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT. Levi announced that an Office of Professional Responsibility was being set up within the Justice Department to watchdog all of the agency's employees, including those of the FBI. The witnesses and the Senators agreed that Congress should go a step farther and set up its own committee to oversee the FBI. Ruckelshaus urged that such a committee "be privy to all information the FBI has relating to any specific investigation [and] operate as openly as possible." The committee's job would be to see that any new law was honored; demand the names of groups...
...assassination of John F. Kennedy is more of a mystery today than it appeared to be almost twelve years ago, due primarily to an intransigent Warren Commission, obfuscating police agencies and a too compliant press. Your article is an important and honorable exception. Several steps ahead of the FBI oversight committee of the House of Representatives, you provide proof that the FBI decided to deceive the Warren Commission and easily accomplished that objective...
...have misused and abused the CIA, Congress has ducked its responsibility to supervise the operations and activities of the agency. So far, there has been relatively little evidence proving that the CIA acted without presidential authorization. On the other hand, there is much to indicate that it bypassed congressional oversight-largely because Congress did not want to be bothered, or was embarrassed by supervising its activities, particularly the agency's covert operations...