Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past, public oversight and public accountability was an impossibility--there was simply not enough information shared with the public. Today that's no longer true. The recent revelations, the public inquiries and investigations, the Freedom of Information Act, have all made our intelligence community much more accessible to the public than heretofore. In addition, over the past several years we have made a very definite and deliberate effort to be more open as an intelligence community. We are responding to the press more forthrightly than ever before. Clearly we can't answer every question, but I can assure you that...
Although the CIA still conducts covert operations aimed at influencing events in foreign countries, the president must authorize all such actions, and Congressional oversight committees must be informed of them, he said...
Dana M. Stein '80, a member of the executive committee, said yesterday that the matter would be resolved by the club's executive committee. "It was an oversight. We can detach ourselves from any partisanship and come up with something fair," Stein said yesterday...
...executive committee voted unanimously to endorse Tsongas two weeks ago, but because of an oversight, they did not announce the endorsement formally until Sunday...
...does not matter that Kennedy framed a bill that does not seek to create a police state. The bill is simply so large that repressive laws can be created without evil intent. In one such oversight, the Congressional Research Service reported that S. 1437's determinate sentencing provisions would drastically increase the number of prison years servec. No one knew that would be the result of that one short section of the 800-page S.1437, and legislators did not have the chance to debate harsh penalties as a policy issue...