Senator proposes breaking up CIA
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A Republican senator calls for a post-9/11 overhaul of US intelligence which would see the break-up of the CIA.
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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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The new proposal by eight Republican senators to break up the CIA and the Pentagon&#39;s virtual lock on intelligence met with sharp opposition yesterday
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The senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee backed away Thursday from comments that a mysterious and expensive government spy project itself was dangerous to national security. But he pledged to continue efforts to kill the highly classified espionage program.
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A U.S. senator demanded on Wednesday  that the CIA director release thousands of pages of documents  detailing the agency's ties with former Nazis who aided in Cold  War espionage against the Soviet Union, officials said.
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A key member of Congress disclosed yesterday that the CIA said in February 2003 that it planned to destroy videotapes of harsh interrogations after the agency's inspector general finished probing the episodes, an account that adds detail to recent CIA statements about the circumstances surrounding...
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Washington -- Congressional Democrats on Monday blasted the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman&#39;s proposal for breaking up the CIA and Defense Department spying operations, while the party&#39;s presidential nominee, Sen. John Kerry, praised it.
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Influential US Republican Senator John McCain blasted the Central Intelligence Agency as a &quot;dysfunctional&quot; and &quot;rogue&quot; organization that needs to be reformed.
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A Democratic senator warned CIA director Porter Goss yesterday that his efforts to make major changes could have &#39;&#39;a significant and negative effect on the agency.
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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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Influential US Republican Senator John McCain blasted the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as a &quot;dysfunctional&quot; and &quot;rogue&quot; organisation that needs to be reformed.
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WASHINGTON - Republican senators proposed removing the largest intelligence bodies from the Central Intelligence Agency, in a move that would essentially dismantle the beleaguered agency.
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A leading Republican senator on Sunday unveiled a plan to reform US intelligence operations, including giving increased budget and firing powers to a new director.
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The Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee unveiled a radical proposal Sunday to remove most of the nation&#39;s major intelligence gathering operations
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Intelligence failures have transformed Senator Pat Roberts, long regarded as a defender of the C.I.A, into one of the leaders of an effort to dismantle it.
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A leading Republican senator Sunday condemned as "a bad idea" a reported U.S. plan to keep some suspected terrorists imprisoned for a lifetime even if the government lacks evidence to charge them.
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Senate Republicans have come up with a reform plan for US intelligence that while awesome in its audacity, could very well cause more problems than it solves by making it harder for intelligence units to share information.