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With that, mike, i'm certain that with your experience specifically with your involvement in the house select committee, benghazi, you understand how valuable intelligence can be to oversight. if asked by the committee, will you provide the raw intelligence and sourcing behind agency finished products and assessments if, in fact, this committee needs it to complete its job? >> it senator, i have been on the other side of this and i know how central it is to make sure you have all that you need to perform at your oversight function four intelligence collection activities and all the agency does...

You have as cia director to keep this committee well informed. i expressed to you my frustration of questioning members of the intelligence committee, and then finding that there was more to the story, and that there were omissions at times. not deception, but omissions. and even more frustrating, reading in the papers the next day leaks that have come from the administration, not necessarily the cia. and i think that he erodes the trust that is essential for us to perform our oversight function, which is absolutely critical since you don't have the regular oversight mechanism mechanisms. and ...

You fully understood the role that you have as cia director to keep this committee well informedi expressed to you my frustration of questioning members of the intelligence committee and then finding that there was more to the story and that there were omissions at times, not deception but omissions. and even more frustrating reading in the paper the next day leaks that have come from the administration, not necessarily the cia. and i think that erodes the trust that is essential for us to perform our oversight function, which is absolutely critical since you don't have the regular oversight m...

Chair of the senate intelligence committee is get the report out. it has been a long pain staking process. work that has gone on over a couple of years. the oversight function of congress where it is their job to look at what agencies of government are doing and to hold them accountable. much of the report won't be made public. it's a limited portion but even within that there are a lot of questions and concerns about what it will say and what ramifications there could be things like inciting violence elsewhere, stirring up political trouble, and offset to that of course, is the notion of the ...

Congress are invigorated to go after this in part because they feel like the white house has not been honest with them in the past about other issues, whether has to do with some of the testimony eric holder has given in the past. whether it has to do with benghazi emails. there is whole litany of issues here where republicans see overreach by administration unwillingness to be overseen by congress. with this case in the irs, with technical issues byron was talk about there is legitimate ways and means oversight function that is served by investigating this. the administration has had a lot of...