Officials Question Plan to Split Up CIA
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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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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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A plan that could authorize more aggressive operations follows concern that Al Qaeda and the Taliban hope to destabilize the Pakistani government, officials said.
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CIA Director Porter J. Goss is moving ahead with a shake-up at the agency, aimed at changing an outdated and risk-averse spying bureaucracy, according to US intelligence officials.
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A Republican plan to break up the CIA as a result of  9/11 is attacked by top Democrats and agency's chief.
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Officials said the C.I.A. could proceed with an overseas interrogation program that has been in limbo since last year.
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Former CIA director George J. Tenet Wednesday criticized an intelligence restructuring bill's plan to create a director of national intelligence, saying it would separate the new intelligence chief from direct control over the case officers and analysts who are overseas and "taking risks."
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WASHINGTON - The top two officials at the CIA&#39;s undercover unit have resigned in what appears to be a revolt over new management.
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Two chiefs of overseas divisions at the CIA are leaving the spy agency, which has been in turmoil since new director Porter Goss took over, a federal official confirmed Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON  The nation&#39;s top military and intelligence officials warned senators yesterday against a rapid restructuring of spy agencies during a hearing that exposed fault lines within the Bush administration over whether the Pentagon ...
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The top two officials at the CIA's  clandestine unit resigned on Monday after clashing with the new  management of the agency at a time when it is fighting  terrorism and supporting U.S. operations in Iraq.
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Hours after the two top clandestine service officers at the CIA resigned yesterday, Director Porter J. Goss asked employees to remain loyal to the agency and rebutted allegations that he had a partisan agenda.
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Within the past month, four former deputy directors of operations have tried to offer CIA Director Porter J. Goss advice about changing the clandestine service
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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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WASHINGTON - A key Republican's proposal to break up the CIA and rearrange the Pentagon's spy agencies under a national intelligence director met immediate and broad resistance Monday. A top Senate Democrat called it a "severe mistake" and the agency's former director said it showed a "dangerous misunderstanding of the business of intelligence."   Critics began aligning to fight the proposal that would represent the most significant overhaul of U.S...
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The CIA was in turmoil last night as supporters and critics of its new director fought a bitter and very public war of words over his efforts to overhaul America&#39;s main intelligence service.
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The CIA on Saturday rebutted suggestions the spy agency was uncooperative and hid from the Sept. 11 commission the videotaped interrogations of two suspected terrorists, saying it waited until the panel went out of business before destroying the material now in question.