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7 lut 2019 · The issue of notification of Congress about imminent clandestine activities was at the heart of the Iran-Contra scandal when President Ronald Reagan and CIA Director William Casey specifically ordered that lawmakers be kept in the dark about the infamous, covert arms-for-hostages deals with Iran.
Congress’s unwillingness to challenge the president’s power to keep information from the public is just a symptom of a much larger abdication. This article appears in the Winter 2022-23 print edition of Columbia Magazine with the title "Uncovering America's Dark Secrets."
28 kwi 2020 · We investigate the role of the Dark Triad on political participation as mediated through political beliefs such as interest and knowledge. We find that Psychopathy and Narcissism are positively associated with political interest, but Narcissism is also negatively associated with political knowledge.
15 lip 2008 · During the 1980s, while serving as a Republican congressman from Wyoming and a rising power in the conservative leadership in Congress, Cheney secretly participated in one of the most highly...
The Constitution enumerates the powers of Congress in detail. In addition, other congressional powers have been granted, or confirmed, by constitutional amendments.
16 kwi 2019 · The so-called sunshine reforms of the 1970s were meant to make Congress more accountable to the public by making it more transparent. Instead, they achieved the opposite by exposing lawmakers to the influence of corporate lobbyists and special interest groups.
Congressman Richard Cheney was the ranking Republican on the congressional committee investigating the Iran-contra affair, in which Reagan administration officials secretly diverted the...
