What Is CIAs Duty To Congress?
The Intelligence Services of the United States, unlike that of most countries, makes a large part of its output available to the legislative branch. Such sharing has provided tensions since Congress often uses the intelligence to provide it with ammunition to challenge administration policies. Likewise, the Administration often see intelligence agencies as “allies” in their political struggles with Congress. Here, the POW issue falls. Those who control the intelligence output controls the results of the policy – return or forget POWs. We’ll see how tradecraft rules were violated with Congress also. One of the first rules of intelligence is to be precise about what is known. In the case of the 1205 and 735 documents, plus a whole host of other items, that has not been done. What has been done, as we have seen, is that a statement is made like, we could not dismiss them as fabrications. Then, there is no attempt to say what that means. Instead, the statement is overlooked as if it did no
