Congress has oversight of the executive branch to ensure a balance of power but the executive branch uses multiple ploys to avoid accountability. Here are three things that Congress should change to have true oversight:
1. Select members of Congress should be privy to on-going
investigations. How many times have you
heard members of the Justice department say that they couldn’t answer a
question from Congress because there is an open investigation? Investigations
can be opened or kept open to exploit this.
If certain members of Congress have access to our country’s most
important secrets, why can’t they have access to information related to an open
investigation.
2. Select members of Congress should be allowed to know
details of intelligence agencies’ operations. How many times have you heard
members of the FBI or CIA say that they couldn’t answer a question from Congress
because it would reveal sources and methods?
3. Select members of Congress should have access to unredacted
documents from the executive branch. Too
often they redact information for nefarious reasons or simply because it is embarrassing
to a department.
Until these things are changed congressional oversight is a
scam.
The deep state unelected agencies seem to be writing their own rules. Of course those rules benefit them and tend to keep power contained in the agencies. Our constitution was intended to protect us from bureaucracy but here we are.
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