Senators Debate Significance of Pentagon Report On Intelligence
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Senate Democrats and Republicans disagreed yesterday over the meaning and importance of a Defense Department inspector general's conclusion that a Pentagon policy office produced and gave senior policymakers "alternative intelligence assessments on Iraq and Al Qaida relations" that were "inconsistent" with the intelligence community's consensus view in the lead-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq....
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purred by a New York Times report, the presidential campaigns Sunday renewed their debate over the Bush administration&#39;s use of intelligence in the build-up to the Iraq war, with allies of Senator
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Rarely has a national security issue of major importance become a subject of distortion and spin like the debate over the intelligence reform bill on Capitol Hill - the outcome of which will determine how US intelligence agencies and our military
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WASHINGTON - Senate leaders want to create a strong national intelligence director with budgetary authority but would leave the Pentagon in charge of some military spy agencies, The Associated Press learned Tuesday.    Sen...
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WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and a key Senate chairman signaled on Tuesday that they favor a slower, more cautious approach to revamping the US intelligence network than has been advocated by the Sept. 11 commission.
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The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee questioned on Tuesday whether President Bush&#39;s choice to head the CIA was too partisan to be able to restore credibility to US intelligence services.
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CAPITOL HILL More charges about how the Pentagon handled CIA requests for corrections to information linking Iraq to al-Qaida. A report released today by Michigan Democratic Senator Carl Levin alleges that
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U.S. senators have launched a review  of U.S. intelligence on Iran to try to avoid pitfalls that  marked the path to the invasion of Iraq, the Los Angeles Times  said.
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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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WASHINGTON -- The government&#39;s top Defense and intelligence officials urged caution Tuesday in overhauling the nation&#39;s intelligence hierarchy in response to a damning report from the 9/11 Commission.
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Intelligence provided by former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith to buttress the White House case for invading Iraq included "reporting of dubious quality or reliability" that supported the political views of senior administration officials rather than the conclusions of the intelligence...
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Two U.S. senators said on Sunday  they were troubled by a report that U.S. intelligence officials  secretly transferred as many as a dozen detainees out of Iraq  in the last six months, possibly violating international  treaties.
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WASHINGTON - Racing the clock, Senate leaders are applying finishing touches to bipartisan legislation addressing the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations just as House GOP leaders prepare to debate their version, which Democrats call partisan and weak...
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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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Description: NPR&#39;s Alex Chadwick talks to NPR&#39;s Andrea Seabrook for an update on the intelligence reform bill currently under consideration in Congress.
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The latest Pentagon report on the detainee abuse scandal focuses on the role played by military intelligence, which arguably is the branch of the Army most challenged by the insurgency in Iraq.
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The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee questioned on Tuesday whether President Bush's choice to head the CIA was too partisan to be able to restore credibility to U.S. intelligence services.