Senator proposes breaking up CIA
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A Republican senator calls for a post-9/11 overhaul of US intelligence which would see the break-up of the CIA.
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He began talking Sunday about a Republican 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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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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Washington -- Congressional Democrats on Monday blasted the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman&#39;s proposal for breaking up the CIA and Defense Department spying operations, while the party&#39;s presidential nominee, Sen. John Kerry, praised it.
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Draft Senate Intelligence Committee legislation would create a national intelligence director with authority over spending, hiring and firing, powers the White House has not explicitly endorsed but three former spymasters said Monday would be crucial to coordinating multiple agencies.
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The proposed legislation would break up the C.I.A. and divide its responsibilities among three new spy agencies.
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Two more of America&#39;s top spies were reported yesterday to be leaving the CIA, as an attempt to fix the troubled agency appeared increasingly to be dividing its ranks and driving out its most experienced officials.
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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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WASHINGTON - Former CIA Director George Tenet on Monday attacked a Republican senator&#39;s proposal to reorganize the CIA, calling it &quot;a dangerous misunderstanding of the business of intelligence.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Melissa Block talks with Vincent Cannistraro, former CIA chief of counter-terrorism, about Sen. Pat Roberts&#39; sweeping proposal to reorganize government intelligence organizations.
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Senate Republicans have come up with a reform plan for US intelligence that while awesome in its audacity, could very well cause more problems than it solves by making it harder for intelligence units to share information.
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WASHINGTON : A Republican plan to break up the CIA as part of a general intelligence overhaul touched off a major partisan brawl as the head of the US spy agency joined outmaneuvered Democrats in describing the proposal as &quot;a step backward.
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Leading senators expressed concern Sunday about a report that the CIA has secretly moved as many as a dozen unidentified prisoners out of Iraq in the past six months, a possible violation of international treaties.
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Two top senators offered a bipartisan plan on Monday to remedy what the Sept. 11 commission called &quot;dysfunctional&quot; congressional oversight of US anti-terror efforts.
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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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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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Half of intelligence work is gathering facts. The other half is analysis. Turmoil at the CIA is a fact. Whether new Director Porter Goss is fixing the agency or breaking it is open to analysis.