United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
The U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence ( HPSCI ) has been founded in 1977 the House of Representatives of the United States. His name could be briefly translated as Intelligence Committee; with longer standing committee for intelligence tasks. It works with its counterpart in the Senate, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, together. The two committees of both houses of Congress of the United States to ensure the supervision of the legislature of the United States Intelligence Community. Chairman of the Committee is in the 112th Congress Republican Mike J. Rogers from Michigan, has held this post since early 2011.
Foundation
On 14 July 1977, the House Resolution 658, the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence was founded based. Precursor was chaired by Lucien N. Nedzi February 1975 Launched Select Committee on Intelligence. Following the resignation of Nedzi Otis G. Pike took over the pre-existing committee in January 1976. The among other budget cuts for the secret proposing final report was on the decision of Congress not be published (but later revealed by journalists ).
Affected areas of policy
The Committee is responsible for various parts of the government administration, the military and federal agencies, as far as it can go to intelligence activities ( Amerikan. expression: the Intelligence Community ). Occasionally, he also occurs together with the corresponding Senate committee together as an investigative committee. To some extent, its legislative functions overlap with that of other committees. His supervision in the following ministries and federal agencies:
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Defense Intelligence Agency
- Department of Defense
- Department of Energy
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Justice
- Department of State
- Department of Treasury
- Drug Enforcement Administration
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- National Geospatial -Intelligence Agency
- National Reconnaissance Office
- National Security Agency
- Office of Naval Intelligence
- U.S. Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
- U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command
- U.S. Coast Guard
- U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence Activity
Subcommittees
The following sub-committees were formed:
- Subcommittee on Terrorism / HUMINT, Analysis and Counterintelligence
- Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence
- Subcommittee on Intelligence Policy
- Subcommittee on Oversight