What kind of power over the CIA does the executive office have?

[The Backlash Cometh]

Can Bush order assassinations randomly, or is there a process where he has to justify it? Can he order massive shredding of documents that might implicate his father, or is there a Public Records law that must be abided?

[DuaneBidoux]

1. I believe it is directly under the Executive.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

2. El Chimpo can order anything he wants....

...but the big question is will the CIA follow those orders?

By the way, any records that could possibly implicate his father in anything have been destroyed long ago. The big question on this issue is how many copies of those records were made over the years and when will they begin to surface? The rest of the records being kept under extremely restricted access at his father's presidential library.

Judging by the turmoil at the CIA, El Chimpo's REALLY sensitive records should start appearing any day now.

[izzie]

3. I think it has oversight in Congress such as the new laws----

that they put on them(the ones they are saying we should get rid of, like killing leaders of countries) but Bush seem to think he is a one man rule and congress seems to have backed him up.We have to hope he turns on his own for them to wake up I guess.