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I definitely think that it does.

That fully and currently informed translates into daily exchanges,

either in person, over the phone, briefings, written notifications.

I know from my perspective when I was at the Justice Department giving agencies advice about congressional oversight,

there was a little bit more caution about how much you would share with Congress about internal and deliberative matters.

I think we lean forward to perhaps over and form our oversight committees.

I think we do that knowingly because we know we don't have a public discussion of what we do.

And so we feel particularly obligation because of our classified activities to make sure that the representatives of the people really know what we're doing

and have a chance to push back and they do push back as well. It is rigorous in that sense.

I'm Cody Poplin and this is a LawFair podcast November 7th, 2015.

That was the voice of Caroline Crass, the General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Last week, George Washington University and the CIA co-hosted an event entitled Ethos and Profession of Intelligence.

As part of the conference, Kenneth Waynestein moderated a conversation between Crass or Encour and Benjamin Wittis on bridging 20th century law

and 21st century intelligence. What new legal questions are raised by rapidly evolving technologies?

And how do those questions interact with existing national security law?

Can the United States strike a balance between privacy, security, and the economic imperatives driving innovation?

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