{"id":38789,"date":"2013-09-21T19:27:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T01:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/21\/the-oversight-shell-game.html"},"modified":"2013-09-28T14:02:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T20:02:03","slug":"the-oversight-shell-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/21\/the-oversight-shell-game.html","title":{"rendered":"The Oversight Shell Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Congresscritters on the Intelligence Committee are there to provide oversight from the Legislative Branch on intelligence activities. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Which doesn&#39;t work really well when notifications of hearings are sent out in the equivalent of the classified ads &#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/73BKWkdhCzCOfW2Hbi5_QH5IpHf2_Dms77ExVo4x4AcSTASTR2biAcQe7z5Y91HuxTl5YMcWoBy4itOSzXf3s5RIEvY0bQDVyO09ZoCBLRKZ0-huS_YN4uqc=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2013\/09\/the-hidden-classified-briefing-most-of-congress-missed\/279857\/'>The Hidden Classified Briefing Most of Congress Missed<\/a><br \/>\n                                                The wild story of the short-notice, three-hour viewing period for a national-security document on the August Friday that summer recess started\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/XbC6XYsBWRR' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congresscritters on the Intelligence Committee are there to provide oversight from the Legislative Branch on intelligence activities. \u00a0 Which doesn&#39;t work really well when notifications of hearings are sent out in the equivalent of the classified ads &#8230; The Hidden Classified Briefing Most of Congress Missed The wild story of the short-notice, three-hour viewing period &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/21\/the-oversight-shell-game.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Oversight Shell Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,17,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-homeland-security","category-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43480,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/11\/on-the-systemic-problem-of-the-nsa.html","url_meta":{"origin":38789,"position":0},"title":"On the systemic problem of the NSA","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 11-Jul-14 2:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It has a purpose, one that is arguably laudable. 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