Word: oversight
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...uncomfortable with the Pentagon's encroaching on its work, wants its station chiefs overseas to be informed of what Rumsfeld's spies are up to. Some lawmakers fear that the Pentagon's secret activity will escape the strict congressional oversight imposed on the CIA's covert operations...
...five-page letter later that month, Berresford pledged to Nadler that she would improve the “oversight and transparency of Ford programming” with new grant language and stricter oversight of grantees...
Since the original complaints were publicized, TSA has responded to public pressure, restricting invasive chest pat-downs to cases where handheld detectors are set off. But oversight measures should be improved so that TSA knows about the problem before Jay Leno mocks it on the Tonight Show. And there are still issues to be addressed: hiring enough female guards so that requests for same-sex screeners can be fulfilled, and making the procedures more transparent to keep passengers informed...
...convinced Follini, but who reassured him, who told him, 'Leave it to me. You'll be covered,'" says one insider. "Even when Follini and Berlusconi were no longer talking, communications were always open with Letta." Letta has an official Cabinet title: Undersecretary to the Prime Minister with Oversight on Intelligence Operations. But he is much more than that. The former newspaper editor is Berlusconi's sounding board and strategist, helping the Milanese media mogul navigate Rome's innermost circles of influence. Their partnership dates back to the mid-1980s when Berlusconi hired Letta - already a Christian Democratic power broker...
...acting as if the election season never ended, setting up a war room of press aides whose job will be to respond rapidly to Republicans. Reid angered Republicans by announcing that the Democratic policy committee, an arm of the Senate Democrats, would usurp G.O.P.-led Senate committees by convening oversight hearings on issues--such as flawed prewar intelligence on Iraq--that Democrats feel have not been sufficiently probed. The policy committee normally promotes party positions on issues and has the statutory authority to hold hearings, but it can't subpoena witnesses. Frist spokesman Bob Stevenson says, "This is a political...