The top two lawmakers in the Senate Intelligence Committee are concerned that their oversight power has been stripped down under a provision quietly slipped into the short-term spending bill which ended the government shutdown.
The provision, which was requested by the White House and Pentagon, allows the White House to work around a law that requires intelligence agencies to get authorization from intelligence committees before spending taxpayer money, lawmakers said, according to a USA Today report.
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