Bush CIA nominee 'too partisan'
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A US Democrat senator tells a hearing that President Bush's nominee for CIA director is too close to the White House.
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Michael Mukasey, the man President Bush will nominate Monday to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, will likely see a less hostile confirmation environment than someone considered more partisan.
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Michael Mukasey, the man President Bush will nominate Monday morning to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, is not expected to prompt the confirmation battle that Senate Democrats threatened to wage if a more partisan nominee was chosen
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U.S. Senate confirmation hearings  for President Bush's nominee for CIA director, Republican Rep.  Porter Goss, will begin Sept. 8, the chairman of the Senate  intelligence committee said on Sunday.
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The bill, which would establish the post of national intelligence director, has powerful critics in both parties.
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The head of the CIA has told its employees that they must not &quot;identify with, support or champion opposition&quot; to the Bush administration.
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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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Democrats who want to fight Alberto Gonzales&#39; nomination for attorney general will do so for the wrong reason. They&#39;ll focus on his memos arguing that President Bush isn&#39;t covered by inconvenient
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush&#39;s nominee to lead the CIA pledged Tuesday to shelve his partisan Republican rhetoric and to encourage the agency&#39;s overseas operatives to take more risks in spying and counterterrorism operations.
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The Bush administration increasingly emphasized partisan political ties over expertise in recent years in selecting the judges who decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, despite laws that preclude such considerations, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush&#39;s nominee to be CIA director promised today to provide Congress and the president with independent, objective intelligence but said it may take longer than previously estimated to have all the needed undercover operatives in
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President Bush warned defiant Republican senators yesterday that he will close down a CIA interrogation program that he credited with thwarting terrorist attacks if they pass a proposal regulating detention of enemy combatants, escalating a politically charged battle that has exposed divisions...
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President Bush's nominee for homeland security secretary advised the C.I.A. on the legality of coercive interrogation methods.
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A federal judge who used to authorize wiretaps in terrorist and espionage cases criticized President Bush's decision to order warrantless surveillance after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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US Representative Porter Goss, President George W. Bush&#39;s nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, said he wouldn&#39;t allow political considerations to guide his management of the agency.
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The top Democrat on the House intelligence committee warned fellow Democrats in the Senate against trying to block the nomination of Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) as CIA director, saying that would be picking the wrong fight in this election year.
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The top Democrat on the House intelligence committee urged fellow lawmakers not to allow confirmation hearings on a new CIA director to derail efforts to overhaul US spy agencies.