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>> lets remember that all these reforms to the cia grew out of the misuse of the cia by richard nixon during watergate. thats really the effort to make the intelligence community professional, not political, protected from politics, and if theres something going wrong, to ensure a whistle is blown and congress can find out to do something about it. when you start to interfere with that, youre attacking the integrity of the intelligence system, and our countrys security is based on that. so what ...

That this hypothetical president broke the law? >> first of all, if it wasnt the president, it would be very straightforward and they would be able to file whats called a crimes report. intelligence community personnel, if they, in the course of their work, hear something thats violation of the crime, theres a process they go through to make a report to the department of justice. if its the president, it falls into a different category. really the only accountability that the president has is fr...