Re:Why We Should All Care About Today's Senate Vote on FISA
by tptacek on Thursday December 27, 2012 @05:25PM
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If the concern is that the executive is hiding facts from the legislative or judicial branches: those branches can appoint special prosecutors, independent counsels, or whatever it is you want to call them. There's obviously no foolproof mechanism by which anyone can absolutely ensure that the President or his team or the DoD will divulge information, but there are facilities the branches can use to hold each other accountable.
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Re:Why We Should All Care About Today's Senate Vote on FISA
by m0nastic on Thursday December 27, 2012 @06:47PM
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I participated in one such example of this oversight (most fun test I ever did).
We were hired by a Special Master that Congress appointed to conduct a pen test against a branch of the DoI without their knowledge[1]
[1] As part of this class action: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobell_vs._Salazar