M. DF,
The Senate Intelligence Committee is an august sub-assembly of senators who convene for the purposes of posturing as in-the-know while chasing down spent information.
Its recent achievements include: a) smiling on the Torricelli rule, wherein the CIA forbade the hiring of anyone but altar boys, girl scouts, and just nice people as operatives in places like Saddam-Iraq and Taliban-Afghanistan; b) overlooking Mr. bin Laden detailing his terrorist program year-in and year-out in mainstream media prior to 09.11. They had a devil of a time figuring out what the 1993 attack on the WTC was all about. And just who blew up those embassies in Kenya?
Senators who sit on this venerable committee can be recognized by the handsome armor-plate protecting the seat of their intelligence.
DGB