Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obsessive belief that foreign money and influence must have been behind the students' revolt and the antiwar movement. Nixon also prodded the CIA to misuse its powers and spy on dissenters. The commission called for tighter controls on White House access to the agency and tighter congressional oversight of its operations...
...handsome black slave (Ken Norton) her husband purchased to improve the breeding stock down in the quarters. Until this moment we cannot be certain that the movie is going to employ every cliche of antebellum melodrama. The possibility that the perfection of its tastelessness will be marred through oversight or the impulse to provide novelty through omission is an irritant. There is great relief when, at last, our heroine (Susan George) succeeds in bending Norton's innocence to her evil will...
...President and a CIA director agreed to keep information from Congress, congressional oversight could not be very meaningful, could...
...oversight be expanded and covert operations be kept secret...
...must look for ways to limit covert activity to matters that really relate to the security of the country. I believe that we can find a formula that will bring covert activity into line with our traditional principles. For example, there may be a way to require an oversight committee's consent for certain kinds of covert operations. In any case, I hope that we can forestall a repetition of some of the covert operations of the past. I take strong exception to the CIA'S undermining a government that had been freely elected by the Chilean people...