Hastings seeks to head House intelligence panel
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A U.S. lawmaker ousted as a federal judge in 1989 on corruption charges tried on Wednesday to convince Democratic colleagues he deserves to head a congressional committee designed to help protect America's security.
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The powerful chairman of the US Senate intelligence committee has promised to introduce this week a new intelligence reorganization bill likely to set Congress on a collision course with the White House, which favors an intelligence "czar" with vaguely defined powers.
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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 chairman and ranking member of the Senate conferees on the bill to restructure intelligence gathering said Sunday that a House Republican compromise proposal fails to provide the needed authority to a new national intelligence director.
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The chairman of the commission that investigated the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States says President Bush must pressure Congress to pass intelligence reform legislation.
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BINGHAMTON, NY An upstate New York congressman says the new Central Intelligence Agency director is doing what needs to be done. Sherwood Boehlert -- a Utica-area Republican -- is a member of the House intelligence committee.
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Congressional aides say House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi has chosen Rep. Silvestre Reyes of Texas to take over as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
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WASHINGTON - The committee writing the Senate's intelligence reorganization plan is recommending creation of a strong national intelligence director with spending power, while leaving the Pentagon in charge of some military spy agencies.    Sen...
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The House Democratic leader Thursday asked for an investigation of alleged threatening remarks made to the ethics committee chairman by GOP lawmakers.
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The chairman of the U.S. military's  Joint Chiefs of Staff has asked lawmakers to give less budget  authority to the national intelligence director than has been  proposed by the commission that investigated the Sept. 11  attacks and backed publicly by the White House.
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The Bush administration has yet to name a new national intelligence director, and the Senate Intelligence Committee's top Democrat says he wants an explanation. The position, created in last year's intelligence reorganization bill, has been open for more than eight weeks.
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The breakup of the CIA proposed by the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee could create &quot;chaos in the intelligence community&quot; as the nation seeks to prevent additional terror attacks, Sen.
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Republican Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan was picked Wednesday to head the House Intelligence Committee amid a heated debate in Congress over how to carry out a major overhaul of the nation&#39;s intelligence system.
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The incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is promising an array of oversight investigations that could provoke sharp disagreement with Republicans and the White House.
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Sept. 11 commission members thought it would be too difficult to break up the CIA and rearrange the Pentagon's spy agencies under a single national intelligence director, as is being proposed in the Senate, the commission's vice chairman says.
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Chicago Tribune - The ranking members of the House Intelligence Committee have asked the CIA to turn over an internal report on whether agency employees should be held accountable for intelligence failures leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks, congressional officials said Tuesday.
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A House committee chairman who has been connected to lobbyists accused of bilking Indian tribes out of millions of dollars said Wednesday that he has been asked to meet with members of the House ethics committee.