Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drinking problem; who was unhappy-information that is really useful to them." In any case, the notoriously stingy KGB did pay Barnett nearly $100,000, and in 1977 it persuaded him to apply for staff positions on the Senate and House intelligence committees and the White House Intelligence Oversight Board...
TIME'S Pentagon correspondent Don Sider has also learned of an additional oversight, not mentioned in the Holloway report. Sider reports that two C-141 Medevac planes were standing by at Saudi Arabia's Dhahran Air Base with twelve doctors on board to treat casualties from the team that was to have assaulted the embassy and the foreign ministry in Tehran. But no one had reckoned on the crash at Desert One that took eight lives and left four others badly burned. Incredibly, the Medevac planes were equipped for every emergency but burns...
...town of Reggio Emilia. Pignedoli served as a navy chaplain in World War II; he was elevated to Cardinal in 1973. As head of the Secretariat for Non-Christians, he "blotted his copybook" during an attempt at Christian-Islamic dialogue in 1976 by endorsing a document that, through his oversight, contained attacks on Israel. The most affable and approachable of the Vatican's top officials, he corresponded personally with more than 6,000 people, many of them young, who addressed their letters to him "Dear Sergio...
...State of the Union address encouraged the adoption of a charter for our intelligence agencies to guard against abuses while simultaneously addressing the "need to remove unwarranted restraints on America's ability to collect intelligence." Congress has now responded with proposals for legislation which provides for reduced congressional oversight of the CIA, the FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency; for court-authorized investigations of Americans in the U.S. who are "known spies" (precisely what is a "known spy"?); for closure of CIA files to Freedom of Information Act inquiries without need for justification by issues...
...Senate thinks before it acts it will reject Carter's requests and continue to seek effective, responsible restraints on intelligence activities. Intelligence agencies have a legitimate need to gather information, but all covert operations should be subjected to rigorous oversight by Congress, and the public should have the legal right to receive information about intelligence activities...