Sentence examples for executive branch oversight from inspiring English sources

This guidance will strengthen executive branch oversight of our intelligence activities.

And then the NSA is empowered to issue "directives" to telephone and internet companies to obtain the communications for whomever the NSA decides – with no external (i.e. outside the executive branch) oversight – complies with the guidelines it submitted to the court.

"The manner in which the FBI is employing U.S. person queries, while subject to genuine efforts at executive branch oversight, is difficult to evaluate, as is the CIA's use of metadata queries," the board says.

Executive-branch oversight is by all appearances nonexistent.

"Virginia has taken the position that it doesn't need to implement the Court's ruling and reform their laws because clemency or executive-branch oversight through geriatric parole is adequate".

"Courts don't have the apparatus to analyze" such issues, so they must be left to the executive branch, with oversight by Congress, Mr. Hauck said.

The Senate should confirm him to the new post, in which we hope he does not forget that the heightened danger does not free the executive branch from oversight or the normal system of checks and balances.

NASA serves at the behest of the government's executive branch, with oversight by Congress.

Executive privilege cannot and should not be allowed to shield the executive branch from regular, valuable Congressional oversight.

But the case may also allow the court to address the general question of how much oversight the executive branch must have over independent agencies.

The administration's opponents say the breadth of this argument calls into question long-settled assumptions about the ability of both Congress and the courts to conduct the necessary oversight of executive branch activities and ensure openness in government.