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The abuses and excesses by the American surveillance and law-enforcement communities in the years leading up to the mid-1970s prompted setting up of committees to reform the intelligence set-up. Let’s take a look and see whether we have an answer to the question once posed by the Roman satirist Juvenal:
Qui custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will guard the guards?)
A few House and Senate committees were formed after reports of surveillance abuse came into light. (Image: danielo/Shutterstock)
Let’s begin by acknowledging the complementary role played by the courts. The leading case here is titled
United States v. United States District Court, better known as the Keith case.
US slaps sanctions on 7 Russian officials over attempted assassination of Alexei Navalny
Navalny, 44, was sickened by the Russian nerve agent Novichok in an attack that the US and others linked to Putin s security services.
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Washington: The United States on Tuesday announced sanctions on seven senior Russian officials over the attempted assassination of opposition leader Alexei Navalny using a nerve agent, and his subsequent jailing.
The sanctions are the first announced by the Joe Biden administration against associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The US intelligence community assesses with high confidence that officers of Russia’s Federal Security Service used a nerve agent to poison the opposition leader on August 20, 2020, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.
How the world reacted to US report implicating Saudi Crown Prince in Khashoggi murder
The vocal critic of Mohammed Bin Salman, Jamal Khashoggi was mysteriously murdered in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Turkey in October 2018
By Usama Hazari| Updated: 1st March 2021 9:00 pm IST Jamal Khashoggi.
Hyderabad: The latest U.S. intelligence report, which claimed that the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the operation to kill or capture journalist Jamal Khashoggi, has drawn reactions from across the world with several people calling for action against the Crown Prince.
A vocal critic of Mohammed Bin Salman, Jamal Khashoggi was mysteriously murdered in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Turkey in October 2018. The former advisor to the Saudi government and US-based journalist was living in a self-imposed exile since 2017.
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The HASC intelligence subcommittee’s jurisdiction covers military intelligence, national intelligence, counter terrorism, and “sensitive operations.” Most agencies in the intelligence community are in the Defense Department, and those budgets devoted to tactical intelligence programs exceed $20 billion. The $61.9 billion national intelligence budget includes all the services, NSA, NRO, DIA, and NGA. All are in Defense (NRO is shared with the DNI.) Again, all quite sensible until one considers that national intelligence also includes the CIA and the intelligence functions of State, Homeland Security, and FBI.
The main lingering question is the status of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) whose job it is to provide oversight to the IC and both its national and tactical programs and budgets. Exactly where does this leave them? Clearly, Speaker Pelosi no longer has faith in the current structure, if not necessarily the members.