Transparency From Spy Agencies Now

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Top intelligence officials should be just as accountable to the people as any other governmental office. But right now, Congress is weighing a provision that would end Senate confirmation for the chief lawyers at both the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. These lawyers are responsible for secretly shaping policies on issues like surveillance, detention, and interrogation at U.S. intelligence agencies.

Confirmation hearings are one of the only ways that the American public gets any insight into our intelligence community. To no longer require these confirmations would remove one of the only transparency and public accountability points that these offices face. We cannot let that happen. The process is important – and has produced real discoveries in the past. Tell the Senate to keep spy agencies accountable to the public.

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Subject Keep Senate confirmation for intelligence lawyers

Intel oversight is largely conducted entirely in secret – with confirmation hearings as one of the only ways that the American public gets any insight into our intelligence community at all – and gets commitments to follow the law from nominees. But provisions in the Intelligence Authorization Act seek to end Senate confirmation for the general counsels of the CIA and ODNI, taking away one of the only mechanisms we have to get transparency, accountability, and public oversight into these offices. I’m urging you as my representative to strike these undemocratic provisions and protect the Senate confirmation process.

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We cannot afford to weaken transparency and public oversight of the intelligence community. Please reject the IAA provisions that threaten the Senate vetting process.

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