Word: oversight
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...also got other improvements, including a review of and report on Bush's domestic surveillance program by the Justice Department inspector general and a provision making clear that Congress does not give the President a free pass on complying with domestic surveillance laws during wartime. "This bill strengthens congressional oversight," Pelosi argues...
...only real prospect for unearthing new facts comes from the subpoena issued last Monday by Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Government Oversight Committee, to Attorney General Michael Mukasey demanding transcripts of FBI interviews with Cheney and Bush in the Plame case. The FBI is awaiting orders from Mukasey's office, but don't hold your breath. Department of Justice spokesman Peter Carr says, "We have received the subpoena and are reviewing it." Waxman's office expects a continued stonewall from the Justice Department ahead of the noon Monday subpoena deadline...
...people already knew four years ago, that policymakers' statements turned out to be wrong after the war because the statements were based on flawed intelligence. The Committee's Phase I report, which investigated that intelligence failure and explained how it happened, was a judicious and valuable act of intelligence oversight. Distorting intelligence and misleading the public, as the current report does...
...month to issues of such import, there would be no need for quorum to be even as low as one-sixth, let alone one-eighth. The institutional inertia affects not only the issues that were put off, such as the quorum vote, but also issues that have received insufficient oversight from the Faculty this year, such as the General Education program...
...University Hall still manages the current $400,000 UC budget, and even though the UC ostensibly has “final control” of its budget according to its constitution, the College continues to demonstrate its power of oversight...