Congress Wins Expanded Oversight of Intelligence Community — The AtlanticAfter months of tough negotiations with the White House, members of Congress who monitor intelligence agencies believe they’ve won meaningful new oversight powers via a bill the President has promised to sign.
Among these new powers: agency directors will have to certify, under penalty of law, that they’ve disclosed to Congress everything that must be disclosed; criteria will be expanded for the types of covert operation planning that Congress must be briefed on; and the White House will even have to retain (for the sake of public records to be disclosed in the future) a written record of every briefing it provides to the intelligence communities and a list of attendees.
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My Comment: In short, what all this means is more paper work.
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