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Revision as of 20:36, January 16, 2019
The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (Senate Intelligence Committee or SSCI) was created as a supposed post-Watergate era reform. It is the only committee of congress in which the minority ranking member serves as "Vice-Chair," in theory being that intelligence and foreign policy matters are handled with bipartisanship. This serves a dual purpose by agreement of the parties covering up each other's intelligence scandals, with the opposition party able to extract concessions. The ranking majority member of the same party behind the Chairman serves as Vice-Chairman on all other committees.
SSCI has been criticized as the most corrupt body of the Deep state. Its sitting members during the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations have been dominated by the Uniparty.
When the Obama administration illegally used the foreign intelligence gathering apparatus for domestic political spying, this presented unique unprecedented problems for the committee. The FISA courts and intelligence committee oversight were created specifically to deal with Nixon-era and J. Edgar Hoover's Fourth Amendment abuses of American citizens' rights. The Obama administration exploited loopholes in the Patriot Act and amendments to target members of an opposing political campaign as a network of "agents of a foreign power."
