So, I think Oversight is an important job that needs to be handled responsibly, with integrity, and not for partisan purposes, but to try to work on a bi-partisan basis to carry out our duty.
One of the main purposes of Oversight is to provide the checks and balances between the independent branches of government, and I think Oversight is -- investigation -- may be in some ways even more important than legislating because we're making sure that the laws are carried out, we're trying to figure out what other laws may be needed, and we're trying to keep people honest.
Mr. Levitt said he thought that oversight of accounting rules was the agency's weakest link.
He said he did not believe that would have solved any problem, but he thought that oversight sealed his fate.
Pressed about why the former N.S.A. contractor thought that oversight by Congress and other checks on the agency were inadequate, Mr. Greenwald said Mr. Snowden brought a folder he had labeled "N.S.A. Lying to Congress" to their first meeting.
"I don't think the oversight board knew how far down we were," she said.
"I think the oversight system is failing to prevent serious violations of patient protection," Senator Frist said.
I don't think that oversight body should be Ofcom as Leveson suggests because that would be a regulator regulating another regulator.
"I think the oversight up to 2007 was abysmal: it just didn't exist," said Representative Bill Delahunt, a Massachusetts Democrat who has organized a series of recent hearings, including the one with Mr. Bellinger.
"I think management oversight is better and, inevitably, by working in small teams other social workers become aware of the cases that social workers are holding on their pod," she says.
