CIA break-up plan draws criticism
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A Republican plan to break up the CIA as a result of  9/11 is attacked by top Democrats and agency's chief.
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Hours after the two top clandestine service officers at the CIA resigned yesterday, Director Porter J. Goss asked employees to remain loyal to the agency and rebutted allegations that he had a partisan agenda.
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The White House is to consider whether defence chiefs should take over CIA covert paramilitary operations.
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The Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee unveiled a radical proposal Sunday to remove most of the nation&#39;s major intelligence gathering operations
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The head of the CIA has told its employees that they must not &quot;identify with, support or champion opposition&quot; to the Bush administration.
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The acting director of the Central  Intelligence Agency said on Monday he would resist a lawmaker's  proposal to dismantle the agency, joining other opponents who  labeled the plan a mistake.
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The Republican chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee has proposed sweeping reforms that would dismantle the CIA and remove several of the United States&#39; largest intelligence agencies from the Pentagon&#39;s control.
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The departure of senior personnel from the CIA continued yesterday with the resignation of two leading spymasters, deepening fears of low morale in the agency, and a backlash against the ambitious reform agenda of its new director.
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Senate Intelligence Committee Republicans proposed removing the nation's largest intelligence gathering operations from the CIA and the Pentagon and putting them directly under a new national intelligence director.
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The plan, which would allow suspected terrorists to be detained for 42 days without charge, faces broad opposition.
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The Republican chairman of the Senate intelligence committee said Sunday that he would propose legislation to break up the Central Intelligence Agency and divide its responsibilities among three new spy agencies.
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A radical proposal by Republican senators to break up the CIA and transfer other intelligence agencies out of the Pentagon met with an expected rush of strong criticism
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Within the past month, four former deputy directors of operations have tried to offer CIA Director Porter J. Goss advice about changing the clandestine service
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The long-simmering tensions between the White House and CIA are erupting into recriminations and resignations.
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Former CIA Director George Tenet on Wednesday criticized proposals to create a national intelligence director, saying the position would lack authority unless the director also is in charge of "leading men and women every day and taking risks."
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WASHINGTON - A sweeping proposal from the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee to effectively dismantle the CIA drew fire Monday from congressional Democrats and mixed reviews from former intelligence officers.
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Ever since the CIA was created in 1947 to spy on America&#39;s Cold War enemies, 38 government committees, commissions and conclaves have urged deep reforms of the long-troubled chief intelligence agency.