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In secrecy with very wide latitude. fascinating story. mark, thank you very much for helping us understand this tonight. i appreciate your time. >> sure, thanks, rachel. fully half the people watching this program right now, believe that mark was made to cough by the cia. we'll be right back. programming note, i'm going to be on the daily show with jon stewart tonight. ♪
That do a disservice to the important relationship that needs to be maintained. it's also being reported today that the inspector general at the cia is not just looking into these matters, he may have made a criminal referral on these matters to the department of justice, so these potentially could be prosecuted as criminal acts by employees of the cia. joining us now is mark missetti. he's the national security correspondent at "the new york times" and the author of the way of the knife, the cia and the war at the ends of the earth. thank you very much for being here tonight. >> thanks for ha...
Is going to lean on president obama to change things, change the business of the cia. >> yes, and structurally, regardless of the partisan politics here, is congress capable of exerting not just oversight but in some ways control over an intelligence agency that by design operates in secrecy with very wide latitude. there has to be some oversight that people can trust. fascinating story. mark, thank you very much for helping us understand this tonight. i appreciate your time. >> sure, thanks, rachel. fully half the people watching this program right now, believe that mark was made to cough b...
To be maintained. it's also being reported today that the inspector general at the cia is not just looking into these matters, he may have made a criminal referral on these matters to the department of justice, so these potentially could be prosecuted as criminal acts by employees of the cia. joining us now is mark missetti. >> thanks for having me on. >> i want to ask you, big picture about the seriousness of these allegations, it seems to me it's a very unusual for members of congress to allege that the spy agency has been spying on congress itself? >> it's been called unprecedented. you lai...
Joining us now is mark missetti. >> thanks for having me on. >> i want to ask you, big picture about the seriousness of these allegations, it seems to me it's a very unusual for members of congress to allege that the spy agency has been spying on congress itself? >> it's been called unprecedented. you laid it out well, what you had was this dispute twin the cia and the intelligence committee over basically the history, who writes the history of this extraordinarily controversial program that took place during the bush administration. but what we've seen is, it's really escalated from there, it...