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We Need Congress To Be The Boss

Posted on April 25, 2014, 11:01 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

The CIA operates in stealth; it is associated with some of the worst abuses of power in recent American history, including assassinations, coups, and torture; it has military capabilities. Congress needs to be firmly in control of its relationship with such an agency. The Constitution demands no less.

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