"I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself". Mr Snowden – through journalists, in the absence of meaningful, reliable democratic oversight – had given people enough knowledge about the nature of modern intelligence-gathering to allow an informed debate.
The survey gets responses directly from workers and, McNeely said, is more reliable than the traditional oversight method involving a factory code of conduct and audits by inspectors.
The lack of reliable record keeping, of conscientious oversight, has had lamentable consequences in Iraq.
It has cut funding for the country's independent fiscal council and packed other important oversight posts with reliable party loyalists.
After years of failing to maintain reliable data about and effective oversight of its counternarcotics activities, Africa Command has, according to the Pentagon's Inspector General, finally taken corrective measures.
This will require strong government leadership and oversight to maintain reliable service statistics and actively and flexibly manage staff deployment as workloads change.
Planning and Monitoring 4. Strengthen the NIS oversight to ensure reliable and consistent collection of gender disaggregated programme data and training of staff who are responsible for data recording.
But it was appalling to hear his successor, Michael Mukasey — who was supposed to be better — demanding that Congress further expand Mr. Bush's power to detain foreigners without charges or reliable evidence, and further evade judicial oversight.
"I have concluded," Judge Pollak wrote, "that arrangements which, subject to careful trial court oversight, are felt to be sufficiently reliable in England, ought likewise to be found sufficiently reliable in the federal courts of the United States, subject to similar measures of trial court oversight.
The purpose of the exercise is to ensure that boards are staffed and led appropriately, that board members are effective in fulfilling their obligations, and that reliable processes are in place to satisfy important oversight requirements.
