Ron Wyden Quotes
In order to do vigorous oversight, the leadership of the intelligence community has got to be straight with the American people and straight with the Congress. For there to be vigorous oversight, the intelligence community's got to be straight with the American people and the Congress and that has not been the case.
United States, Congress, Senate, Select Committee on Intelligence. Hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. 26 Sept. 2013. Government Publishing Office.
At the time Walker made this statement George W. Bush was in the 6th year of his troubled presidency. He was not a strong leader and was generally believed by all but his most loyal supporters to have not told the truth to the American people and many people thought that he and his administration had deliberately lied about many things – especially the Iraq war causes belli. Bush claimed that he had been misled by bad intelligence and that his failure to tell the truth was inadvertent.
The intelligence agencies had in many cases not shared critical information with the oversight committees and the White House and in a number of cases actually lied to them.
Her immediate reference was to George W. Bush and his administration who had not been candid with the American people as to the reasons for the Iraq War
Ronald Lee Wyden is an American politician who is currently serving as the senior United States Senator for Oregon, a seat he has held since 1996. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 until 1996. He is the current dean of Oregon's congressional delegation.
