Word: oversight
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...officials, leery of being sucked into new scandals, insist that their covert operations are now subject to layers of oversight. Before an agency paramilitary team can be launched, the President must sign an intelligence "finding" that broadly outlines the operation to be performed. That finding, along with a more detailed description of the mission, is sent to the congressional intelligence committees. If they object to an operation, they can cut off its funds the next time the agency's budget comes...
...Senate's Church committee holds lengthy hearings on the agency's covert operations and demands new congressional oversight. President Gerald Ford lays down new rules, and the agency loses its taste for paramilitary missions...
...move beyond Harvard’s Ivy-covered walls. But as Glickman said, such a shift would likely redirect the IOP’s financial resources away from Harvard programs. And though some students brainstormed low-cost ideas, such as replicating certain IOP programs at other colleges, any oversight given to these off-campus programs would drain the IOP’s staff and attention...
...though Saddam refused for four years to allow the world to check whether he was trying to obtain nuclear weapons, North Korea, until this recent bout of truculence, had at least frozen its plutonium process. That argument glides over the reality that while Pyongyang has submitted to nominal international oversight since 1994, it cheated on its agreements and consistently restricted inspectors' access to key nuclear sites. Whatever its reasons, the Administration's strategy is to talk tough but give North Korean leader Kim Jong Il a slight opening--threatening sanctions, not military force. "I believe the situation with North Korea...
Martin said the list of classified substances has been around since 1996, but before Sept. 11 the government only had limited oversight over such material. If the agents weren’t being transported, they were not subject to federal regulation...