In the first 5 ½ years of the war on terror, the CIA filed not a single occurrence of legal violation to an independent oversight board, even while the FBI filed a few hundred potential violations. Still, filing with a group whose responsibility is to inform the President and Attorney General of potentially unlawful intelligence actions might not have mattered; the groupâs board was vacant for the first two years of the administration. (Washington Post)
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180384