Some cover-ups are more equal than other cover-ups.

That’s the lesson that might be gleaned from a series of dizzying events putting the intelligence community and its congressional overseers at odds this week. It began with a Republican report on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, which led to an outcry from critics over how partisan lawmakers were participating in a cover-up. It was followed by President Donald Trump’s nomination of Gina Haspel, who oversaw the torture of terrorism suspects under the Bush administration, to lead the CIA—and suddenly those critics were singing a different tune, seemingly content to allow a different cover-up to go unaddressed.

These two incidents, coming back to back, aren’t just evidence of hypocrisy. They are symptoms of the same, longstanding problem, which is that congressional oversight of the intelligence community is thoroughly broken.

On Monday, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee released what it claimed to be a summary of its investigation into Russia’s role in the election. Among its conclusions, it disagreed with the intelligence community’s 2017 assessment that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government “developed a clear preference” for candidate Trump.

The summary, presumably drafted by aides of Trump transition official and committee Chairman Devin Nunes, disputed that assessment even in the face of the recent indictment of Russian internet trolls, which laid out how they set up anti-Hillary and pro-Trump campaign rallies. The indictment also showed how their social media activity pursued the same anti-Hillary, pro-Trump line, launching hashtags like #TrumpTrain and #Hillary4Prison, the Twitter account March for Trump, and the Facebook accounts Clinton FRAUDation and Trumpsters United.