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Government Shouldn't Fund Media Bias with Taxpayer Dollars (Christian News Wire)
January 6, 2009, 3:30 pm EST
WASHINGTON , Jan. 6 / Christian Newswire / -- Boycott The New York Times editor Don Feder said today that the idea of a government bailout for struggling newspapers, which has been floated recently by some legislators and journalists, is ...
Ann Coulter Cries Foul Over Today Cancellation (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
January 6, 2009, 3:00 pm EST
The "liberal media elite" is taking another bashing, and this time it's not from Sarah Palin.
RATE THIS ARTICLE (Crosswalk.com)
January 6, 2009, 11:29 am EST
In the lull before inauguration I’m taking today and Monday to say some things about the media. First – and I know as a columnist this may sound self-serving – newspapers must be saved.
RATE THIS ARTICLE (Crosswalk.com)
January 6, 2009, 11:28 am EST
On Friday, I made the case for helping your local newspaper survive, no matter how frustrated you might be with it. Today I want to tell you another survival story.
Today Kisses Coulter Goodbye (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
January 6, 2009, 10:42 am EST
http://images.eonline.com/resize/66/66/eol_images/Entire_Site/20090106/300.ad.AnnCoulter.010609.jpgThe liberal media elite has run afoul of Ann Coulter yet again. Well, that didn’t take long. The lightning-rod conservative pundit is crying ...
Today Kisses Coulter Goodbye (E! Online)
January 6, 2009, 10:21 am EST
The liberal media elite has run afoul of Ann Coulter yet again. Well, that didn't take long. The lightning-rod conservative pundit is crying conspiracy—liberal media elite...
Standing up to Bush (Las Vegas Sun)
January 5, 2009, 11:42 am EST
Recurring themes of the Bush administration — secrecy and low regard for science — are prevalent in two White House actions that are now stimulating considerable opposition.
Patrick Tyler's 'A World of Trouble': an opinionated look at the Middle East (Austin American-Statesman)
January 3, 2009, 12:09 pm EST
Patrick Tyler is a veteran foreign correspondent who has worked the Middle East and China beats since the mid '80s, first for The Washington Post and then for The New York Times.


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The Intelligence Committees


The House and Senate select committees on intelligence share some important characteristics. They have limited authorities. They do not have exclusive authority over intelligence agencies. Appropriations are ultimately determined by the Appropriations committees. The Armed Services committees exercise jurisdiction over the intelligence agencies within the Department of Defense (and, in the case of the Senate, over the Central Intelligence Agency). One consequence is that the rise and fall of intelligence budgets are tied directly to trends in defense spending.

The president is required by law to ensure the congressional Intelligence committees are kept fully and currently informed of the intelligence activities of the United States. The committees allow the CIA to some extent to withhold information in order to protect sources, methods, and operations. The CIA must bring presidentially authorized covert action Findings and Memoranda of Notification to the Intelligence committees, and it must detail its failures. The committees conduct their most important work in closed hearings or briefings in which security over classified material can be maintained.

Members of the Intelligence committees serve for a limited time, a restriction imposed by each chamber. Many members believe these limits prevent committee members from developing the necessary expertise to conduct effective oversight.

Secrecy, while necessary, can also harm oversight. The overall budget of the intelligence community is classified, as are most of its activities. Thus, the Intelligence committees cannot take advantage of democracy's best oversight mechanism: public disclosure. This makes them significantly different from other congressional oversight committees, which are often spurred into action by the work of investigative journalists and watchdog organizations.

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