The critical question is, do we want public policies regulating intelligence agencies, or do we want intelligence agencies that determine their own policies, that determine their own regulations, that we have no control or oversight over?
The purpose of the book is to warn the American people that the U.S. has a cyberwar capability that they don't know about and over which the government has no control or oversight.
Prime Minister Hayder al-Abadi has previously pledged to bring all armed groups under state control or oversight.
It was uninterested in exercising control or even oversight of the spooks, according to the report.
Self-regulation is preferable to control or bureaucratic oversight, he said, lest press freedom be undermined.
The GOP in its current form simply cannot be trusted with legislative control or executive oversight.
But mostly, it seems just one more example of how a bailout without strong government control, or even oversight, just feeds the same greed-driven abuses that have gotten us into our current predicament.
In other cases, drones -- officially known as remotely piloted aircraft, or RPAs -- broke down, escaped human control and oversight, or self-destructed for reasons ranging from pilot error and bad weather to mechanical failure in Afghanistan, Djibouti, the Gulf of Aden, Iraq, Kuwait, and various other unspecified or classified foreign locations, as well as in the United States.
But Barings was criticized for poor controls and oversight.
