H.R. 3822, to strengthen the system of Congressional oversight of intelligence activities of the United States: hearings before the Subcommittee on Legislation of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, February 24 and March 10, 1988U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 |
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123 페이지 - That the United States is determined— (a) to prevent by whatever means may be necessary, including the use of arms, the Marxist-Leninist regime in Cuba from extending, by force or the threat of force, its aggressive or subversive activities to any part of this hemisphere; (b) to prevent in Cuba the creation or use of an externally supported military capability endangering the security of the United States...
207 페이지 - No funds appropriated under the authority of this or any other Act may be expended by or on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency for operations in foreign countries, other than activities intended solely for obtaining necessary intelligence...
187 페이지 - It seldom happens in the negotiation of treaties, of whatever nature, but that perfect secrecy and immediate despatch are sometimes requisite. There are cases where the most useful intelligence may be obtained, if the persons possessing it can be relieved from apprehensions of discovery.
134 페이지 - If, in the opinion of any of the Parties, the inviolability or the integrity of the territory or the sovereignty or political independence of any Party in the treaty area...
219 페이지 - There are cases where the most useful intelligence may be obtained, if the persons possessing it can be relieved from apprehensions of discovery. Those apprehensions will operate on those persons whether they are actuated by mercenary or friendly motives; and there doubtless are. many of both descriptions, who rely on the secrecy of the President, but who would not confide in that of the Senate, and still less in that of a large popular Assembly.
120 페이지 - It deserves to be remarked that, as the participation of the Senate in the making of treaties and the power of the legislature to declare war are exceptions out of the general "executive power...
110 페이지 - I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.
144 페이지 - Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, are exercised only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.
187 페이지 - The uniform practice in appropriating funds for foreign affairs during the first fifteen years under the new Constitution was summarized by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin in 1804: The Constitution has made the Executive the organ for managing our intercourse with foreign nations. . . . The Executive being thus charged with the foreign intercourse, no law has undertaken to prescribe its specific duties .... [I]t has been the uniform opinion and practice that the...
124 페이지 - Is this duty limited to the enforcement of acts of Congress or of treaties of the United States according to their express terms, or does it include the rights, duties and obligations growing out of the Constitution itself, our international relations, and all the protection implied by the nature of the government under the Constitution?