"The President's decision enables Rumsfeld to run the operations off the books, free from legal restrictions imposed on the C.I.A. Under current law, all C.I.A. covert activities overseas must be authorized by a Presidential finding and reported to the Senate and House intelligence committees. The Pentagon doesn't feel obligated to report any of this to Congress." a former high-level intelligence official said.Download an Exclusive Report, "The Coming Wars", by Seymour Hersh writing of the New Yorker.
