No mere oversight
Subtitle: Congressional oversight of intelligence is broken
By: Denis McDonough, Mara Rudman, Peter Rundlet
Contributors: Rudman, Mara, author; Rundlet, Peter, author; Center for American Progress
Publisher: Center for American Progress
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 37
Subjects: Intelligence service; Powers and duties; National security; Legislative power; United States. Congress; United States
Description: The Center for American Progress has released a comprehensive study of congressional oversight of the U.S. Intelligence Community, "No Mere Oversight: Congressional Oversight of Intelligence is Broken," that delineates where Congress is failing in its oversight duties and how past congressional methods, ways and means of effective oversight could be revived to correct the problems. In the study, authors Denis McDonough, Mara Rudman and Peter Rundlet explore the history of congressional oversight of the Intelligence Community and then examine how past congressional experience could be drawn upon today by the House and Senate Intelligence Committees to ensure effective intelligence gathering capabilities are the norm, not the exception.