From The Washington Post:The House intelligence committee late Thursday approved measures to strengthen oversight of the National Security Agency and the overall intelligence community, including by making the jobs of NSA director and general counsel subject to Senate confirmation.
The committee also voted to include provisions that would establish independent inspectors general at the NSA and at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence who could not be fired by the heads of those agencies. The latter position would have expanded authority to investigate all 16 intelligence agencies under the director's oversight.
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My Comment: It appears that there is now an attempt to politicize the NSA and other relevant intelligence departments. Putting funds in the bill for disbursement to foreign governments for accepting Guantanamo detainees is my red flag that this is the trend that Congress is now pursuing.