| Sqrl said: I'm not saying that nobody in congress should be allowed to know and that is not how it is currently handled either. It is that not everyone in congress needs to have specific detailed knowledge of every aspect of our nations TS/S affairs. I can easily think of examples but thats not the point because your question assumes I'm contending something that I'm not. Or to put it another way we agree that congress needs to be briefed, but we disagree on how many of them need to be briefed and to what level of detail. Advocating full briefings to every member is just as insane as advocating no briefings...actually its probably more so. Information can later be divulged but you can never un-tell or un-leak a piece of information. Once it's out it's out for good. |
I would agree with you if we voted that way.
if congress was setup so only 10 people voted on things related to the CIA, then only 10 people would need to know. But all 535 vote on these things.
In a country with 300 million people, reducing the number who need to know to to 535 seems pretty damn secure to me.
And I am not saying they need to know everything. I mean they don't need to know the names of all the people who are agents. But they might need to know what those people did, so they can decide to vote on if they should be allowed to continued to do it.
