Senate Republicans Weigh Dismantling CIA
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Senate Intelligence Committee Republicans proposed removing the nation's largest intelligence gathering operations from the CIA and the Pentagon and putting them directly under a new national intelligence director.
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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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To many of President Bush's allies, it is time to free intelligence officials from "legislative purgatory" and get the CIA back in the business of effective interrogations of suspected terrorists.
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Leading Republican and Democratic lawmakers continue to press for passage of a landmark bill to reform US intelligence agencies. The fate of the legislation appears to hinge on a few key
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Senate Republicans are unveiling a plan to strip the nation&#39;s largest intelligence gathering operations from the CIA and the Pentagon and put them in the hands of a new national intelligence director.
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WASHINGTON Aug. 18, 2004  Two influential Senate Republicans are putting forward competing proposals to change the intelligence community&#39;s leadership structure, despite words of caution from top Pentagon officials.
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The Republican-led Senate on Wednesday approved President Bush&#39;s choice to head the CIA, Republican Porter Goss. The approval came amid protests from some Democrats who said he has too many Republican ties for a job that requires independence.
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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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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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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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WASHINGTON - Two influential Senate Republicans are putting forward competing proposals to change the intelligence community's leadership structure, despite words of caution from top Pentagon officials.    As Congress works through the August recess to consider recommendations from the Sept...
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Sweeping proposal by several in GOP would do away with CIA, strip some spy duties from Pentagon. US Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. said he will submit legislation that would do the following: The position would
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Leading senators expressed concern Sunday about a report that the CIA has secretly moved as many as a dozen unidentified prisoners out of Iraq in the past six months, a possible violation of international treaties.
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Rep. Porter J. Goss of Florida said on Tuesday that rebuilding the CIA would take more than five years and that American spies needed to be encouraged to take more risks.
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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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The Senate Wednesday confirmed Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., as the next CIA director on a 77-17 vote. Forty-nine Republicans joined 28 Democrats in voting &quot;yes&quot; to confirm Goss.
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He began talking Sunday about a Republican plan to strip the nation&#39;s largest intelligence gathering operations from the CIA and the Pentagon and put them in the hands of a new national intelligence director.