CSPAN Capitol Hill Hearings February 8, 2013
I am not a lawyer. I have come to learn of the term sui generis. The olc memos released after the president came into office were released because the program was terminated. Olc will counsel opinions, and those opinions were looked at in a different way because of the sui generis circumstances. Both are essential for the ability of congress to carry its oversight responsibilities. Finally, the intelligence reform act and terrorist prevention act of 2004, with which you are very familiar and which i was a coauthor, requires the director of National Intelligence to recommend who the cia directo...