[ClintonBeGone]

There is no real need for an intelligence committee anyway. It's nothing but a leak factory. If the rats want to ignore it I hope it's never reinstated.

Agreed. It's just a place to harass the administration as they try to do their job.

[Phsstpok]

There is no real need for an intelligence committee anyway. It's nothing but a leak factory. If the rats want to ignore it I hope it's never reinstated.

Agreed. It's just a place to harass the administration as they try to do their job.

there are laws on the books that require the White House to report covert actions to Congress, in the form of the duly "sworn to secrecy" select committee, within a fixed amount of time. With the committee (at least the Senate part) suspended then the White House can't comply with those laws and that puts a legal freeze on covert operations.

This is not something we can legally sustain and still do the nation's business under the current laws. Bush could issue a "finding" or a new executive order, but that will be challenged. This will become a crisis of the first magnitiude.