It’s a temporary hold where Congress gets to ask for more info. You’re right that it’s informal and Trump doesn’t need their approval anyways.

Perhaps it’s enough to make him back off before the midterms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theory

And no, the CIA failing is not a good thing. Grok making targeting decisions with satellite photos and twitter consensus would be worse for a start.

The next democrat president is going to be left at most with just satellite photos and the depleted goodwill of allies that haven’t demolished their intelligence agencies.