"This is a group of people who are extraordinarily dangerous," said Senator Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who leads the upper house intelligence panel.
Former top CIA officials such as Cofer Black and Robert Richer ran Blackwater's in-house intelligence arm.
We stand with the 9/11 commission that the national interest requires the two houses' intelligence committees to fully assume appropriation authority.
Former NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden and Mike Rogers, chair of the house intelligence committee openly joked about putting Edward Snowden on a hitlist, as picked up by journalist Brendan Sasso.
Despite the opposition, Mike Rogers, the chairman of the house intelligence committee and primary sponsor of the bill, remains confident it will be passed by the House of Representatives this week.
Our suspicions were later confirmed – the flat was owned by MI5, and housed intelligence officers who kept an eye on the Reds over the road.
He named the chairs of the Senate and house intelligence committee, Dianne Feinstein and Mike Rogers, as people who had "elected" him to his whistleblower position by not doing their jobs properly in ensuring the oversight of the NSA.
He confirmed that the central compound, which houses intelligence and police headquarters and the district governor's building, was still under government control, as were the two main Afghan army bases to the east and south of the compound.
It highlighted inept border officials who allowed one of his wives to pass into Iran, inept municipal officials who failed to spot the unusual construction at his house, intelligence officials who hoarded information, and senior police officials who it deemed guilty of a "grave dereliction of duty".
The recommendation for a more focused and powerful Senate-House intelligence panel has been around for 50 years with nary a sign of interest from lawmakers busy defending their pieces of the oversight pie -- an estimated $40 billion in annual intelligence spending.
