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Recommendation: Congressional oversight for intelligence-and counterterrorism-is now dysfunctional. Congress should address this problem. We have considered various alternatives: A joint committee on the old model of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy is one. A single committee in each house of Congress, combining authorizing and appropriating authorities, is another. The new committee or committees should conduct continuing studies of the activities of the intelligence agencies and report problems relating to the development and use of intelligence to all members of the House and Senate. We have already recommended that the total level of funding for intelligence be made public, and that the national intelligence program be appropriated to the National Intelligence Director, not to the secretary of defense. We also recommend that the intelligence committee should have a subcommittee specifically dedicated to oversight, freed from the consuming responsibility of working on the budget. The resolution creating the new intelligence committee structure should grant subpoena authority to the committee or committees. The majority party's representation on this committee should never exceed the minority's representation by more than one. Four of the members appointed to this committee or committees should be a member who also serves on each of the following additional committees: Armed Services, Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, and the Defense Appropriations subcommittee. In this way the other major congressional interests can be brought together in the new committee's work. Members should serve indefinitely on the intelligence committees, without set terms, thereby letting them accumulate expertise. The committees should be smaller-perhaps seven or nine members in each house-so that each member feels a greater sense of responsibility, and accountability, for the quality of the committee's work. The leaders of the Department of Homeland Security now appear before 88 committees and subcommittees of Congress. One expert witness (not a member of the administration) told us that this is perhaps the single largest obstacle impeding the department's successful development. The one attempt to consolidate such committee authority, the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, may be eliminated. The Senate does not have even this. Congress needs to establish for the Department of Homeland Security the kind of clear authority and responsibility that exist to enable the Justice Department to deal with crime and the Defense Department to deal with threats to national security. After reading the above, is "Congressional oversight for intelligence-and counterterrorism-is now dysfunctional" the correct answer to the question "What is perhaps the single largest obstacle impeding the department's successful development"? OPTIONS:
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no

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After the disruption of the plot in Amman, it had not escaped notice in Washington that Hijazi had lived in California and driven a cab in Boston and that Deek was a naturalized U.S. citizen who, as Berger reminded President Clinton, had been in touch with extremists in the United States as well as abroad. Before Ressam's arrest, Berger saw no need to raise a public alarm at home- although the FBI put all field offices on alert. Now, following Ressam's arrest, the FBI asked for an unprecedented number of special wiretaps. Both Berger andTenet told us that their impression was that more Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) wiretap requests were processed during the millennium alert than ever before. The next day, writing about Ressam's arrest and links to a cell in Montreal, Berger informed the President that the FBI would advise police in the United States to step up activities but would still try to avoid undue public alarm by stressing that the government had no specific information about planned attacks. At a December 22 meeting of the Small Group of principals, FBI Director Louis Freeh briefed officials from the NSC staff, CIA, and Justice on wiretaps and investigations inside the United States, including a Brooklyn entity tied to the Ressam arrest, a seemingly unreliable foreign report of possible attacks on seven U.S. cities, two Algerians detained on the Canadian border, and searches in Montreal related to a jihadist cell. The Justice Department released a statement on the alert the same day. Clarke's staff warned, "Foreign terrorist sleeper cells are present in the US and attacks in the US are likely." Clarke asked Berger to try to make sure that the domestic agencies remained alert." Is there a threat to civilian aircraft?"he wrote. Clarke also asked the principals in late December to discuss a foreign security service report about a Bin Laden plan to put bombs on transatlantic flights. The CSG met daily. Berger said that the principals met constantly. Later, when asked what made her decide to ask Ressam to step out of his vehicle, Diana Dean, a Customs inspector who referred Ressam to secondary inspection, testified that it was her "training and experience." It appears that the heightened sense of alert at the national level played no role in Ressam's detention. There was a mounting sense of public alarm. The earlier Jordanian arrests had been covered in the press, and Ressam's arrest was featured on network evening news broadcasts throughout the Christmas season. The FBI was more communicative during the millennium crisis than it had ever been. After reading the above, is "No, CIA" the correct answer to the question "Is Clarke's staff part of the Justice Department?"? OPTIONS:
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no

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One evening , Felix serves as a conductor to four singing cats . Meanwhile at a house only a few yards away , a hefty man is napping on a chair but gets awakened by their act . To silence them , the man grabs and rolls out bowling ball , knocking Felix and the other cats off their feet . Felix , however , still insist to go on performing as he plays a flute and his friends dance . Awakened once more , the man takes out an ether sprayer and showers its contents onto the cats . While his friends fall into a snooze , Felix decides to have his sleep at home . Felix enters his apartment , and lies on the sofa . But before he can rest long enough , his dwarf master calls him over . Felix comes in and hears about the dwarf's complaint about an insomnia problem . To assist his master , the cat offers a glass of warm milk but to no effect . The dwarf is still unable to sleep , and therefore craves for some entertainment instead . Felix then plays a clarinet , and the toy soldiers start dancing to his music . After moving around for a few moments , one of the little soldiers fires a small cannon , piercing a picture on a wall with its projectile . The dwarf was amazed by the presentation , and asks Felix to handover the cannon . When Felix gives it and suddenly turns around , the hostile dwarf aims the small weapon at him and fires . Felix was struck at the back and frightenedly flees the apartment . Out in the streets , Felix looks for suitable resting places . He then climbs up a telephone pole , and lies down on a set of pants hanging on one of the lines . After reading the above, is "None" the correct answer to the question "Does Felix play the 'flute' or the 'clarinet'?"? OPTIONS:
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no