CHIDAMBARAM 2 LAST

When told that it did not happen during his predecessor
Shivraj Patil's time and that he did not assert over the NSA,
he said "That is how it should be. Isn't it ? It was not, for
whatever reason I do not know. But if I was going to be
responsible, as I was made responsible on that day, then I was
going to make sure, that I know what was going on.
"The only way that I could know what is going on, what
happened and what did not happen, was to exercise political
oversight over every agency that is concerned with security".
Chidambaram said the NSA is essentially adviser to the
PM and adviser to the National Security Council.
"Surely, he must be in the loop as far as the internal
security is concerned. How can he not be in the loop. He has
to be in the loop," he said. PTI