Intelligence Issues for Congress [electronic resource].
- Corporate Author
- Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
- Published
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2010.
- Physical Description
- 29 pages : digital, PDF file
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- Summary
- Provides background and analysis on issues involving the U.S. intelligence community. Discusses ongoing Congressional concerns, including intelligence collection capabilities, quality of analysis, the intelligence community and Iraq and Afghanistan, international terrorism, and intelligence support to military forces. Reviews issues in the 111th Congress, emphasizing Christmas 2009 bombing attempt, intelligence and surveillance programs, terrorist surveillance program and NSA electronic surveillance in context of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, roles of the FBI and CIA, role of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, paramilitary operations and defense human intelligence, regional concerns, CIA and allegations of prisoner abuse, Congressional notification procedures, civilian intelligence personnel systems, and GAO role in intelligence community. Outlines legislation in the 109th-111th Congresses.
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- Related Titles
- ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection
- Note
- Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Sept. 2012). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.
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