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CIA and congressional oversight: learning and forgetting lessons / Hastedt, Glenn

Hastedt, Glenn	Journal Article
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Organizations both learn lessons and forget lessons. A lesson said to be learned by the CIA as a result of the negative reaction of congressional overseers to its interrogation program was the need to create opportunities to provide information and interact with them. The historical record shows that this was a lesson already learned. Why then the need to relearn it? It is suggested here that organizational forgetfulness may be triggered by the same factors which promote learning: perceived problems with organizational performance, opportunities to act, and people.

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CIA ; Learning ; Congressional Oversight ; Forgetting Lessons

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ID: 094450

Congressional oversight of intelligence: is the solution part of the problem? / Kibbe, Jennifer

Kibbe, Jennifer	Journal Article
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2010.

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After presenting evidence that the current system of congressional oversight of intelligence is failing, this article analyzes how the system has been undermined by a toxic combination of problems: the intelligence committees' inherent informational disadvantage in relation to the executive branch, the jurisdictional morass in which the committees must operate and their own internecine partisanship. The article discusses a range of specific changes that could be made, but concludes that the critical ingredient in strengthening the oversight system is to emphasize the development of strong, nonpartisan committee leadership.

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Intelligence ; Problem ; Solution Part ; Congressional Oversight

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Waste and duplication in NASA programs: the need to enhance U.S. space program efficiency / Chapman, Bert

Chapman, Bert	Article
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The U.S. Government faces acute budgetary deficits and national debt problems in the Obama Administration's second term. These problems have been brought about by decades of unsustainable government spending affecting all federal agencies including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). An outgrowth of this fiscal profligacy is the presence of wasteful and duplicative programs within NASA that prevent this agency from achieving its space science and human spaceflight objectives. These programs occur due to mismanagement of these programs by NASA and from the creation of these programs by the U.S. Congress and congressional committees. This occurs because congressional appropriators tend to be more concerned with economically enhancing their states and districts and promoting their reelections instead of providing effectively targeted funding and oversight of their programs to ensure they meet national space policy goals and provide tangible value for taxpayers. This work will examine recent examples of wasteful and duplicative NASA programs and suggest ways to improve their utility.

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NASA ; U.S. Space Policy ; Congressional Oversight ; NOAA ; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ; Financial Waste ;
Program Duplication ; Congressional Earmarking ; Space Program Management

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