Question by tangerine: What part of the US Constitution authorizes the Vice President to set up a secret CIA program?
And how does this secret program affect the checks and balances system that is supposed to be guaranteed by the Constitution? Does his setting up this secret program give too much power to the executive branch?
Best answer:
Answer by DAR
The Constitution doesn’t authorize the CIA, at all.
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September 19, 2011 at 10:44 pm
Remember, this is a man who once believed that the Office of the VP was outside the authority of either the legislative or executive branches and that, therefore, checks & balances do not apply to him.