Congressional Oversight

As Congress works to reassert its authority over United States war making, it should improve its infrastructure and policies for handling sensitive information.

There was a time when the US didn't promote human rights or even consider it much of an objective in foreign policy at all.

An ambassador responds to a colleague: release, with appropriate redaction, would support, not inhibit, State Department accountability.

Forcing release of such material would chill candor, intimidate potential dissenters from speaking up, and inject an element of gamesmanship.

Though regulatory efforts have worked to monitor the app’s potential national security threats so far, politicians growing impatient.

Section 502B(c) is a potent tool to accelerate congressional oversight of support to countries with concerning human rights records. 

"An overarching concern of the senators was the organizational capacity of the State Department to respond nimbly to [global] challenges."

They forcibly removed the entire indigenous Chagossian people from the island, and a Navy planner involved later expressed deep regret.

The 2022 report illustrates the limits of congressionally mandated reporting requirements on matters of war and peace and the need for Congress to be more proactive in informing…

"It may be shocking for Americans to realize that there are no laws barring U.S. officials from working or doing business with foreign governments once out of office, despite the…

An obscure process called the “blue slip,” allows a single Senator to stop a judicial nomination in its tracks.

It's long past time for the Senate to abandon the anti-democratic "blue slip" process for judicial nominations.