Word: oversights
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...changing the chairmanship and hence the agenda of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jeffords' switch is likely to affect everything from decisions over treaties to key appointments to congressional oversight of such policies as U.S. support for counterinsurgency efforts in Colombia as part of the war on drugs. It's already clear, for example, that the Bush administration's appointee to head the State Department's Latin America desk, Otto Reich, is in trouble. Reich ran the domestic propaganda campaign for the Reagan administration's program backing the Nicaraguan contras, and was nominated with strong backing from right-wing anti...
...years earlier. During Louis Freeh's eight-year tenure (he is stepping down next month), the bureau was often at war with the Clinton Justice Department, largely over Janet Reno's hands-off approach to the serial Clinton scandals. Congressional Republicans cheered Freeh on--and gave him little oversight. There was plenty of fresh young talent entering the ranks, but mid- and senior management was a huge problem, as veteran agents left for better-paying jobs or were driven out by the politics of the place. "This is not a guy who breeds healthy skepticism and dissent," says a Clinton...
...high rate of administrative turnover also meant that there was little oversight of an accounting system that Chaudhry called “old-fashioned and loosey-goosey...
...These observations are not intended to dismiss the accreditation process as flawed, and indeed, it clearly fills a need for oversight of our healthcare providers. But aside from the conclusions that may be drawn from these data, the fact remains that a substantial proportion of students do not trust UHS. Even the most capable medical facility in the world is useless if nobody dares to get treatment from...
Perhaps it is only me, but I would like more than an assurance. The very fact that former Attorney General Janet Reno did not know about Carnivore’s implementation until she read about it in The New York Times indicates a gaping hole in the oversight that the FBI claims exists...