17 Jun
2015
17 Jun
'15
4:51 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Tim Beelen <tim@diffalt.com> wrote:
By the way, the CIA is under congressional oversight.
As the lawmaking and big picture entity, yes.
That is where accountability ends.
On most things, no. Operationally the CIA reports to the DNI who reports to the President. Unless something goes wrong there, or is sufficiently big, Congress won't know, and even then it's usually only four or eight people. And when it comes to that, the VP (recently ahem Cheney) stands for the President and orders that Congress is not informed... for eight years on things like assasination programs.
They don't have to explain themselves to you.
Well of course they don't, you let them do that, that's why your government sucks.