The House Intelligence Committee is supposed to be providing „oversight“ of the intelligence community and preventing it from violating our civil rights. That‘s why it was formed in the first place, out of the Pike Committee, when Congress actually investigated abuses by the NSA, CIA and FBI. But, over the decades, the House Intelligence Committee has, instead, turned into a cheerleader for the intelligence community and seems to work to better hide its activities from the public, rather than oversee them.