Spy chief seeks more eavesdropping power
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The top U.S. intelligence official is telling Congress it shouldn't succumb to pressure to roll back a new law that enhances the government's eavesdropping capability on terrorists as well as more traditional potential adversaries.
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The United Nations headquarters in Europe, where a listening device was discovered by workmen recently, is probably rife with spying equipment, a UN security source has said.
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The United States is invading the privacy of the U.N. nuclear chief if it is eavesdropping on his phone calls, a nuclear agency official said Monday after media reports that Washington was collecting information to support its call for the chief's ouster.
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President Bush said Wednesday he wants Congress to expand and make permanent a law that temporarily gives the government more power to eavesdrop without warrants on suspected foreign terrorists.
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With temporary spy law expansion set to expire Feb. 1, the Bush administration is ratcheting up pressure for a broader permanent replacement. Not so fast, say Democratic leaders.
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A debate in Congress over eavesdropping on terrorism suspects will cost American lives by exposing intelligence techniques, the Bush administration's spy chief said on Thursday.
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FORT MEADE, Maryland  - President George W. Bush urged Congress on Wednesday to expand the government's domestic spying powers permanently, saying a failure to do so would leave the country vulnerable to another terrorist attack.
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The Defense Secretary pushes his generals to field a larger and more aggressive clandestine force
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President Bush urged Congress today to give him "additional authority" to carry out a controversial warrantless eavesdropping program directed against international terrorists and to approve "broader reforms" in the 1978 law that regulates domestic surveillance of foreign agents' communications.
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China and Russia are spying on the United States nearly as much as they did during the Cold War, according to the top U.S. intelligence official
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CIA Director Porter Goss told his new chief of spy operations this week to launch a much more aggressive espionage campaign that would use undercover officers to penetrate
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President Bush said Wednesday that a law hastily passed in August to temporarily give the government more power to eavesdrop without warrants on foreign terror suspects must be made permanent and expanded.
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President Bush instructed the nation's new spy chief to focus on finding more recruits with the language skills and cultural background to collect information on al-Quaida and other terrorist groups.
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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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CRAWFORD, Texas  - With fellow Republicans  blocking a sweeping overhaul of U.S. spy agencies, President  Bush issued orders for the CIA and the FBI to strengthen their  intelligence operations as recommended by the commission that  investigated the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Ever since the CIA was created in 1947 to spy on America&#39;s Cold War enemies, 38 government committees, commissions and conclaves have urged deep reforms of the long-troubled chief intelligence agency.
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Trade Secretary Alistair is calling for tighter restrictions on the Freedom of Information Act, the BBC learns.