Y'all know the FBI has no direct oversight from Congress, right?
That the oversight happens (theoretically) through the promulgation and enforcement of guidelines from the attorney general?
There are public ones: http://www.justice.gov/ag/readingroom/guidelines.pdf
and there are also secret ones that are not published.
Occasionally the FBI goes to congress out of the goodness of their heart and gives them an update, to avoid congress getting uppity.
The last 3-4 times this has happened, it's usually been to say "whoops, we've been completely and totally violating our internal guidelines"
Y'all know the FBI has no direct oversight from Congress, right?
That the oversight happens (theoretically) through the promulgation and enforcement of guidelines from the attorney general?
There are public ones: http://www.justice.gov/ag/readingroom/guidelines.pdf
and there are also secret ones that are not published.
Occasionally the FBI goes to congress out of the goodness of their heart and gives them an update, to avoid congress getting uppity.
The last 3-4 times this has happened, it's usually been to say "whoops, we've been completely and totally violating our internal guidelines"