Following one of the biggest intelligence failures in U.S. history, the September 11, 2001, attacks, an independent commission recommended Congress strengthen its oversight of the CIA, FBI and other spy agencies — but a new retrospective report reveals that never happened.
Since the inner workings of the intelligence community are by nature secret, Americans rely on Congress to ensure it’s protecting the homeland while respecting their liberty. But not much has changed since 2004 when the 9/11 Commission lambasted congressional oversight of the intelligence community as “dysfunctional” and reported that the “House and Senate intelligence committees lack the power, influence, and sustained capability” to get accountability for its failures.
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