The intelligence apparatus is supposedly subject to supervision by the legislature, which wields budgetary authority over these agencies and has the power to review internal administrative documents that do not contain classified information. In reality, however, intelligence operations are extremely secretive, and legislators can do little to hold them in check. Taiwan now faces two very pressing tasks related to its intelligence operations.
至於在情治機關的監督機制上，立法院雖然在表面上掌握情治機關的預算審查權、調閱權，實際上，實際進行中的情治工作還是極為機密，立委幾乎無碰觸的可能，監督效果十分有限。