CIA Said Instability Seemed 'Irreversible'
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Early on the morning of Nov. 13, 2006, members of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group gathered around a dark wooden conference table in the windowless Roosevelt Room of the White House.
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The CIA used a widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding on three suspects captured after the September 11 attacks, CIA Director Michael Hayden told Congress on Tuesday.
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The situation in Iraq is unlikely to  improve anytime soon, according to a classified cable and  briefings from the Central Intelligence Agency, the New York  Times reported on Tuesday.
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A United Nations (UN) report states that although the assets of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda have been frozen, it is hard to tell what this means.
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In a farewell assessment of Iraq&#39;s security and political situation, the CIA&#39;s senior officer there wrote that a stronger government and
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Sept. 11 commission members thought it would be too difficult to break up the CIA and rearrange the Pentagon's spy agencies under a single national intelligence director, as is being proposed in the Senate, the commission's vice chairman says.
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The new CIA inspector general report slams the agency for not foreseeing the Al Qaida threat and 9/11. The intel analysts may have missed it, but turns out the CIA psychics may have predicted it in 1986.
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Two recent assessments warned that the situation in Iraq is deteriorating and may not rebound any time soon, according to government officials.
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Top U.S. officials were aware some  pre-war evidence cited to make the case against Iraq's Saddam  Hussein was questionable but U.S. intelligence officials  nonetheless deemed the threat of his developing nuclear weapons  credible, top White House aides said on Sunday.
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Al Qaeda's safe haven in northwestern Pakistan is largely inaccessible to outside forces and unlikely to be eliminated by either the U.S. or Pakistani military, top intelligence officials said on Wednesday.
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President Bush, determined to put an  optimistic face on deadly turmoil in Iraq, said on Tuesday that  the CIA was just guessing when it said the country was in  danger of slipping into civil war.
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For six years, Central Intelligence Agency officers have worried that someday the tide of post-Sept. 11 opinion would turn.
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ST. MARY'S CITY, Maryland  - The CIA's harsh questioning of terrorism suspects was legal and saved lives, the U.S. national intelligence director said on Wednesday, as Congress questioned a CIA lawyer about the agency's destruction of interrogation videotapes.
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The Bush administration allowed CIA interrogators to use tactics that were "quite distressing, uncomfortable, even frightening," as long as they did not cause enough severe and lasting pain to constitute illegal torture, a senior Justice Department official said last week.
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A report by the inspector general says the CIA had an insufficient strategic approach to counterterrorism and that its counterterrorism center insufficiently fused analysis and operations.
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Allies and enemies worried that the premierâs coalition would remain divided and vulnerable to another collapse.
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It should not be surprising that a classified National Intelligence Estimate completed late last month projects three scenarios for Iraq over the next year and a half that range from dicey to disastrous -- from fragile stability to civil war among Sunni