Lee Hamilton talking about howpowerful offices and institutions have been created like the Director National Intelligence and the Center for Counter Terrorism need checks and balances.
Lee Hamilton, Vice Chair of the Board of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research speaking in a discussion "Making America Safer: Reforming Congress for the post-9/11 Era" talks about when powerful institutions are created in the executive branch an effective counter balance is needed in the Congress. This is hard to do since Congress has to be a partner and a critic.(1:30)
February 15, 2005
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