Russia and China crack Snowden Cache

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On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Tim Beelen <tim at 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.