Deputy Director: CIA Not 'Dysfunctional'
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Countering severe criticism of the CIA, the agency's departing deputy director called for an end to the "tirades and hyperbole" that he said are hampering constructive debate about needed intelligence reform.
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Top Democrat suggests CIO isn't fit to keep his job amid reports of security-related "incidents." CIO points to "significant progress."
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WASHINGTON - President Bush's nominee to head the CIA promised Tuesday to shed his political past and provide precise, objective and independent intelligence to the president and Congress. But after a 4 1/2-hour confirmation hearing, some Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee were not convinced...
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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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In April, James L. Pavitt became the first director of the CIA's clandestine service ever to testify publicly before Congress. While he was not technically undercover as the deputy director of operations, just about everything he was in charge of for five years  was.
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The defense secretary signaled that troop totals were unlikely to drop below 130,000 this year.
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John E. McLaughlin, a 32-year CIA veteran who was acting director this summer, left as the agency appears to be in turmoil under new director Goss and others are threatening to leave, officials said.
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You have to say this for President Bush and his advisers: They are not a timid bunch.
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The CIA's current techniques for interrogating terrorism suspects are legal and do not include a widely condemned method known as waterboarding, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Congress on Tuesday.
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The suspected head of the U.S. branch of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers rebel group and four others pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of assisting a foreign terrorist organization.
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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 - The breakup of the CIA proposed by the Republican chairman of the Senate intelligence committee could create &quot;chaos in the intelligence community&quot; as the nation seeks to prevent additional terrorist attacks, Sen.
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The CIA says efforts to hunt down Osama bin Laden are as strong as ever, despite a report that the agency has shut down a unit that hunted for the al-Qaida leader and his top lieutenants.
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The columnist who touched off a criminal investigation when he disclosed the identity of a CIA analyst testified on Monday that defendant Lewis "Scooter" Libby was not the one who blew her cover.
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The Republican congressman chosen by  President Bush to head the CIA sought on Tuesday to assure  Democrats that he would leave politics behind and lead the spy  agency in a nonpartisan manner.
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Amid allegations he fostered a climate that led to the prison abuse scandal, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Friday that the military&#39;s mistreatment of detainees was not as bad as what terrorists have done.
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The Republican congressman chosen by President Bush to head the CIA sought on Tuesday to assure Democrats that he would leave politics behind and lead the spy agency in a nonpartisan manner.