# Secret Oversight Secret oversight is review performed inside a classified or restricted system. It can include courts, inspectors general, agency compliance teams, executive-branch review, congressional committees, provider challenges, and later declassification. ## Notebook evidence [[Scanned_20260730-1830]], PDF pages 5–18, asks how the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court|FISC]], amici, the Attorney General, DNI, agencies, and compelled providers divide authorization and review. The April 2022 FISC opinion demonstrates that noncompliance can be discovered and recorded while remaining unknown publicly until a later release. ## Central tension Secrecy can protect targets, methods, and ongoing investigations. It also restricts adversarial testing and public correction. Oversight should therefore be evaluated as a system: access to facts, independence, authority, auditability, timeliness, disclosure, and remedy. ## Boundary The existence of secrecy is not proof of wrongdoing; the existence of oversight is not proof of compliance. ## Source - [[Scanned_20260730-1830]], PDF pages 5–18.