Senate Panel Questions Bush's CIA Pick
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The top Democrat on the Senate  Intelligence Committee questioned on Tuesday whether President  Bush's choice to head the CIA was too partisan to be able to  restore credibility to U.S. intelligence services.
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee does not plan to act on President Bush's re-nomination of an agency head accused of misusing government money.
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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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The Senate Armed Services Committee this morning is holding a confirmation hearing on Robert M. Gates, the former CIA chief and National Security Adviser nominated by President Bush to replace outgoing defense secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
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Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is seen in the CBS Green Room prior to being interviewed on CBS&#39;s &quot;Face the Nation&quot; in Washington Sunday, Dec. 5, 2004.
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Republicans and Democrats on  Wednesday clashed over whether Porter Goss was the right man to  lead the CIA through intelligence reform as President Bush's  nominee moved toward winning Senate confirmation.
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A European Union panel has doubts about the legality of a Bush administration program that monitors international financial transactions, the groupÂs leader said.
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President Bush, locked in an  election year battle over national security, on Friday will  give the post of CIA director some of the broad authority that  the Sept. 11 commission envisioned for a new intelligence czar.
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Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence have questioned whether the recent National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq gave political advantage to the Bush administration by making "rapid withdrawal" of U.S. troops the only alternative military option the NIE explored.
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WASHINGTON - Officials reacted warily to a proposal by key Republican senators to transfer the nation's major intelligence gathering from the CIA and the Pentagon to control by a new director.    The warmest response, in fact, came from the camp of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry...
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The Senate intelligence committee yesterday produced a new bipartisan bill governing foreign intelligence surveillance conducted inside the United States, but objections by several Democratic lawmakers to some of its provisions raised questions about how quickly it might gain passage.
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A Senate committee unanimously approved President George W. Bush's choice for defense secretary on Tuesday after he told the panel the United States was not winning in Iraq and needed a new approach to end the carnage and avert a possible region-wide war.
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The White House and three powerful GOP senators reached an impasse Wednesday over a Bush administration plan to allow tough CIA interrogations, underscoring election-season divisions among Republicans on the high profile issue of security.
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President Bush's pick to be the nation's next defense chief will face his first round of questioning from senators Tuesday.
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A Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee is cautioning Republicans against blocking a vote Monday on a resolution opposing President Bush's troop increase in Iraq
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WASHINGTON Two leading senators are voicing concerns about reports that the CIA secretly sent some prisoners out of Iraq for interrogations.
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(Washington-AP) Sept. 14, 2004 - The Senate Intelligence Committee opens hearings Tuesday morning into the nomination of Porter Goss as CIA chief, succeeding George Tenet, who resigned.