Bush CIA Pick Says Won't Bring Politics to Job
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The Republican congressman chosen by  President Bush to head the CIA said on Tuesday he would leave  politics behind and lead the spy agency in a nonpartisan  manner.
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Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday  categorically ruled out a run for the White House in 2008, even  if asked by the Republican president who recruited him back  into government.
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The attorney general nominee declined to say if he considered harsh interrogation techniques to be torture.
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President Bush, embroiled in a  fierce campaign 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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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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A senior White House official said  on Sunday that career employees at the Social Security  Administration would not be asked to promote President Bush's  plan to create private investment accounts.
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The official, who requested anonymity, declined to say whom the US president had chosen but said Bush would &quot;probably&quot; announce the move formally in his speech Tuesday to the United Nations General Assembly.
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Michael Mukasey, the man President Bush will nominate Monday morning to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, is not expected to prompt the confirmation battle that Senate Democrats threatened to wage if a more partisan nominee was chosen
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Robert Gates is unlikely to rein in the Pentagon's controversial post-September 11 expansion into intelligence, despite concerns the U.S. military is ill-suited for espionage outside the battlefield, experts say.
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President Bush said he nominated Robert Gates to be his next secretary of defense to provide a "fresh perspective" on Iraq, but it's not clear how the former CIA chief will influence administration policy on the war.
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Friday rejected demands from congressional leaders to share information about the CIA's destruction of detainee interrogation tapes. In a response letter, he reminded people that, "At my confirmation hearing, I testified that I would...resist political pressure and ensure that politics plays no role in cases brought by the Department of Justice."
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A former White House aide tells senators President Bush was not involved in the firing of federal prosecutors.
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President Bush&#39;s nominee to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency says he is committed to reform and would be a fair and independent spy chief if confirmed by the Senate.
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US Representative Porter Goss, President George W. Bush&#39;s nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, said he wouldn&#39;t allow political considerations to guide his management of the agency.
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President Bush's pick to become  homeland security secretary, former New York police  commissioner Bernard Kerik, abruptly withdrew his nomination on  Friday due to what he said were questions over the immigration  status of a housekeeper and nanny he employed.
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President Bush's nominee for CIA  director on Monday told senators who questioned whether he  would stand up to the White House that he would make sure the  credibility of the spy agency was not damaged by outside  political battles.
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The nation's spy chief on Sunday would not identify what CIA interrogators are allowed to do in getting information from terror suspects, but tried to assure critics that torture is not condoned or used.