Is Obama hurting the Democratic Party by not joining forces with Hilla

[Tal]

And this last line pretty shows it's not Congress, that sets the policies;
It's pretty much the Executive branch that tells the CIA how to operate, Congress is the auditor of the activities and determines if the CIA is doing what it should be doing, but it is the Executive branch that must act on what Congress finds to affect policy change. So if the sitting President and their NSC decide that doing some things is fine, the only thing Congress can really do to affect change is to bring some of the information to light to the public and use force of public opinion to change the ways the President and the NSC are handling things (which is exactly what Congress has been doing and that's good).

I'm confused. You point out the same information I pointed you to - and yet you still claim that Congress should not legislate the use of torture as an interrogation technique for any Federal Agency. Do you really think it should be left up to the Executive branch to determine the laws of the land?