This is what happenned during Carter, Reagan, and Bush's extermination squad operations in Central America. Congress would kick and scream and then vote yes for more funding just about every time. To ask your representative to sign on, click here. And all the relevant committee members knew exactly what was going on. They knew for example, in El Salvador: I know because Allan Nairn, the author of this expose testified before the Senate Intelligence Committe shortly after it was released and he said it felt like they were interigating him to see how much he knew and how he knew it. Plus as he points out in this interview, they had access to all the C.I.A. and Pentagon files: The Washington Post has an interesting article on him..