Does it matter?

Which report do you believe?
Seymour Hersch
Foreign Policy
Or which committee is informed?
Budget, Foreign Affairs, Armed Services, Intelligence.
Officially war powers and the purse are in the hands of congress.
But the military and intelligence are not just in the hands of the president.
How these committees are informed, is the key to progress or more run around.
Compartmentalized information is the key to our defense being so offensive.
Apparently congress has done as good a job of insulating themselves from responsibility and the adminstration has of blaming them, and excusing themselves. There is evidence that even military commanders to not know what the right hand is doing.* But it is a sure bet that our enemies know more than we can say.

[Preemptive point: Should one need to read the latest? * Given the record of congress and the administration?]

[To put this in semi-clear terms, the president's job is commander in chief and is sworn to defend the constitution. There is a clear record that he has poorly done his job and been given ever more powers by a congress who has not held him accountable and done their's. The sharper point is that of course the president has the power to defend the country as long as he has the ability to defend his actions and is responsible for them. It is necessary to "trust but verify" at home as well as abroad. It is also necessary to make sure that preemption is no longer the policy without such review. And to do so, we must see when it started and when it leaked and which committee knows.]

* Fallon