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...sensitive to leaks, and after one such incident he had some 25 high-level officials, including himself, submit to lie-detector tests. "I believe in appropriate secrets," Carlucci says, "and I believe in keeping them." But unlike CIA Director William Casey, Carlucci is comfortable with the concept of congressional oversight of intelligence activities...
...while planning a resolution opposing his proposed troop increase in the war. Today incoming Judiciary chairman Patrick Leahy held hearings on what he says are executive branch infringements on Americans' privacy. And on Thursday Leahy will have attorney general Alberto Gonzales appear before his panel for a wide-ranging oversight hearing, which the committee's spokesperson says will dig into the civil liberties issues Democrats raised in the campaign...
...wrong side of tough national security policies. Echoing the dominant centrist approach, California's Dianne Feinstein, who sits on both the intelligence and judiciary committees, told me yesterday she thinks "it is right to give the government reasonable leeway to protect Americans," while "having hearings and oversight is also helpful in clearing...
Harvard “had access to public information disclosing the companies that make up the fund. This is either an unfortunate lapse in oversight or an abandonment of the Harvard Corporation’s moral stand against the genocide and the military-oil nexus that fuels it,” added Bhatnagar...
...Funding will not be the only Iraq issue at hand. Hoping to keep Bush in the cross hairs, the Democrats who take over the armed services committees - Carl Levin in the Senate and Ike Skelton in the House - plan aggressive oversight hearings to investigate Bush missteps in the conduct of the war. And force levels in Iraq will also be a fierce topic of debate. Bush is mulling plans to increase the 140,000 troops there in order to launch surge operations against insurgents in and around Baghdad. Key Democrats like Levin and Sen. Joseph Biden, who takes over...