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Congressional Oversight Of Us Intelligence Activities, Mary B. Derosa
Congressional Oversight Of Us Intelligence Activities, Mary B. Derosa
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This chapter examines the challenges, how they affect congressional oversight of intelligence, and Congress’s efforts to ensure accountability for United States (US) intelligence activities. The United States Government has engaged in intelligence collection and covert action since its earliest days. Congressional oversight of intelligence activities, however, has a relatively short history. It was not until the late 1940s, with the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), that the US House of Representatives and Senate created entities – subcommittees of their Armed Services committees – with responsibility for intelligence oversight. The Church Committee revelations and other concerns that surfaced during …
Making Fiction Of Facts In The Israeli Spy Case, Kenneth Lasson, Angelo Codevilla, Lawrence J. Korb, John Loftus
Making Fiction Of Facts In The Israeli Spy Case, Kenneth Lasson, Angelo Codevilla, Lawrence J. Korb, John Loftus
All Faculty Scholarship
The authors make the case that Jonathan Pollard, the man convicted of spying for Israel, is again being condemned by new allegations by Martin Peretz in a New Republic article, and by retired Navy Capt. M. E. Bowman. The authors of these new assertions may not know more of the particulars than others in high places who have already publicly supported commuting Pollard's sentence to time served.
Remodeling The Classified Information Procedures Act (Cipa), Afsheen John Radsan
Remodeling The Classified Information Procedures Act (Cipa), Afsheen John Radsan
Faculty Scholarship
The intelligence community and the law enforcement sector are supposed to be working closely to keep us all safe from terrorists and other dangers. The benefits of this cooperation should not be frittered away by unnecessary burdens in trying suspected terrorists in civilian courts. If the executive branch is to be kept away from the dark side of counterterrorism, the courts, Congress, or a combination of the two should modernize their approach to alignment, to Section 6 of Classified Information Procedures Act, and to closed portions of trials.
First, a prosecutor’s discovery obligations should apply to the intelligence community only …
Understanding The Terrorist Mindset, Randy Borum
Understanding The Terrorist Mindset, Randy Borum
Mental Health Law & Policy Faculty Publications
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