An oversight committee?
When the Senate has the power to authorize war you are saying that they are relying on the recommendations from a committee who don't do the jobs that they are supposed to do? The SIC has access to the intel. The SIC does not have access to the documents showing thought processes the conclusions and the executive branch draws from the intel. There is no debate about that.
Once again, I state that the SIC themselves concluded that there was no pressure on the analysts from the executive branch. It is written in their own report. How can they both claim that there might have been pressure if they concluded in their investigation that there was no pressure? That sounds highly irresponsible! No wonder they're working so hard to point the finger elsewhere. Personally I see no reason to blame people who act on the intelligence. If anything the spy agencies are the one who need to fix their problems. Our government acted appropriately based on the the flawed intel. Once again, the SIC drew these very same conclusions...
What I'm trying to say is that the members of the SIC and the members of the US Senate that they are supposed to the inform drew the same conclusions as the executive branch with the same intel. There is no excuse for them, nor do they need one, the simple fact is that the intel was flawed. They can investigate that and have done so and concluded that it was the case. To go beyond that and claim that they were lied to, when they had the same data at their fingertips is inappropriate and unethical.
