Sentence examples for oversight and intelligence from inspiring English sources

"We understand that Mr. Cohen's wife and other family members fear for their safety after these attacks, and we have repeatedly offered our assistance to work with law enforcement to enhance security measures for Mr. Cohen and his family," Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the chairmen of the House oversight and intelligence committees, wrote in a statement Wednesday.

After a crisp introduction to the history of biowarfare, he focuses on the seemingly insurmountable obstacles to nonproliferation efforts aimed at state-sponsored weapons programs: treaty compliance verification, program oversight, and intelligence.

Obama has agreed to begin wide-ranging dialogue between the US and EU member states, involving the attorney general Eric Holder, to discuss "the collection and oversight of intelligence and questions of privacy and data protection".

and the ranking Democrats on the judiciary, foreign affairs, homeland security, oversight, armed services and intelligence committees.

Oversight of security and intelligence policy falls largely to Congress, and in their original report, the 9/11 commissioners found that authority over these concerns was splintered among 88 different committees and subcommittees.

In assessing the performance of Congress, the commission said that lawmakers "responded slowly to the rise of transnational terrorism as a threat to national security" in the years before Sept. 11 and that oversight of intelligence and counterterrorism issues was "dysfunctional" and divided among too many committees.

"Oversight and review of intelligence services is always difficult given the secrecy necessary for many of their activities to be carried out effectively.

The affair highlights once again the lack of democratic oversight and guidance for our intelligence organisations - the three intelligence services, the defence intelligence staff and the coordinating and analytical machinery in the cabinet office.