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              CIA Cited for Not Disclosing Covert Action
Thursday, May 10th, 2007
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said yesterday that the CIA violated the law last year when it failed to inform the panel of “a significant covert action activity.” “Despite agency explanations that the failure was inadvertent, the committee is deeply troubled over the fact that such an oversight could occur, whether intentionally or inadvertent,” the panel said in its report on the fiscal 2008 intelligence authorization bill released late yesterday. An intelligence official said yesterday that he could not discuss the covert action. He said that after CIA Director Michael V. Hayden took his post in May 2006 and learned about the program and that Congress had not been fully briefed, “the agency itself took the issue to the Hill [and] corrected what was an inadvertent oversight.” The committee gave no hint of what the covert activity involved. It disclosed the issue in support of provisions it placed in the bill that would require the CIA inspector general to conduct audits of each covert action program at least once every three years and to submit a report on the findings to both the House and Senate intelligence panels. “Scrupulous transparency between the intelligence community and this committee is an absolute necessity on matters related to covert actions,” the report said. Yesterday, the White House, in comments on the bill, said it opposes that provision because it “impermissibly intrudes on the president’s constitutional authority to protect and control access to sensitive national security information.” Under the National Security Act, the president can limit “under exceptional circumstances” congressional access to approval of covert actions, but disclosure is expected to be made to the “Gang of Eight” — the House speaker and minority leader, the Senate majority and minority leaders, and the chairmen and ranking minority members of the two intelligence panels. The president must later inform the committees in “a timely manner.” Covert activities, which are intended to influence political or military actions abroad without any acknowledgment of U.S. involvement, are treated differently from intelligence-gathering activities, about which the law requires Congress to be kept “fully and currently informed.” Have Your Say: CIA Cited for Not Disclosing Covert Action Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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