US spy chief scraps satellite program
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Spy chief Mike McConnell has junked a multibillion-dollar spy satellite program that engineers hoped would someday pass undetected through the space above other nations.
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WASHINGTON - After the Pentagon&#39;s national missile defense system failed a key test this week, the Bush administration has dropped its plans to activate the system by the end of the year.
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The senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee backed away Thursday from comments that a mysterious and expensive government spy project itself was dangerous to national security. But he pledged to continue efforts to kill the highly classified espionage program.
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Sean O'Keefe, who has spent three tumultuous years running the nation's space program, is resigning, the White House said Monday.
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US Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announces his resignation from President Bush's cabinet.
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Privacy advocates yesterday called on the federal government to scrap a Department of Homeland Security data-mining program designed to create terrorism risk assessments for every traveler who enters or leaves the United States.
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Two senior CIA officials are reported to have quit in the latest sign of turmoil within the US spy organisation.
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The Republican chairman of the Senate intelligence committee unveiled a radical proposal yesterday to remove most of the nation&#39;s major intelligence-gathering operations from the CIA and Pentagon
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Senate Republicans are unveiling a plan to strip the nation&#39;s largest intelligence gathering operations from the CIA and the Pentagon and put them in the hands of a new national intelligence director.
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WASHINGTON: US homeland security secretary Tom Ridge, whose name became synonymous with colour-coded terror alerts and tutorials about how to prepare for possible attack, resigned Tuesday.
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U.S. Air Force Secretary James Roche has resigned, the Pentagon said in a statement Tuesday.
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A large U.S. spy satellite loses power and can no longer be controlled. Governmental officials say the satellite, which could contain hazardous materials, could hit the Earth in late February or early March.
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CIA Director Porter J. Goss is moving ahead with a shake-up at the agency, aimed at changing an outdated and risk-averse spying bureaucracy, according to US intelligence officials.
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THE US national missile defence program suffered a major setback yesterday with the forced shutdown of the first test flight of a high-speed interceptor missile.
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The US military dropped spy charges against a Syrian-American airman who worked as a translator at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Wednesday after
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WASHINGTON - The White House has eliminated funding  for a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope from its 2006 budget request  and directed NASA to focus solely on de-orbiting the popular spacecraft at the  end of its life, according to government and industry sources.
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US Congress gave final approval to a massive reorganisation of America&#39;s intelligence system, which lawmakers said would reduce the risk of terror strikes like the attacks on September 11, 2001.