Plan to Dismantle CIA Gets Cool Reception
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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."
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CIA to declassify secret records detailing illegal surveillance, assassination plots and kidnapping.
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The Republican chairman of the Senate intelligence committee unveiled a radical proposal yesterday to remove most of the nation&#39;s major intelligence-gathering operations from the CIA and Pentagon
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Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday praised Syria for its plan to redeploy some of its troops in Lebanon and its willingness to do more to control its border with Iraq.
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The new CIA inspector general report slams the agency for not foreseeing the Al Qaida threat and 9/11. The intel analysts may have missed it, but turns out the CIA psychics may have predicted it in 1986.
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A treasure trove of CIA documents released on Tuesday shed light on the spy agency's efforts to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro in the 1960s by getting the mafia to kill him in a "gangster-type action."
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The Senate intelligence committee has proposed a plan to break up the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and divide its responsibility among three new spy agencies, news reports here said Monday.
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Acting under pressure from Congress, the CIA has decided to trim its contractor staffing by 10 percent.  It is the agency's first effort since the Sept. 11, 2001,  attacks to curb what critics have decried as the growing privatization of U.S. intelligence work, a circumstance that has sharply boo...
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The Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday that he will propose legislation to break up the CIA and divide its responsibilities among three new agencies.
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It has now become apparent why Porter Goss, a politician, was named to head the CIA in an administration that already has been accused of politicizing intelligence during the Iraq war: to settle old scores.
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A proposal to shift U.S.  intelligence functions from the CIA to new agencies under a  national director came under heavy fire on Monday from critics  who said it would wreak havoc on the country's spy apparatus  just as it is needed most in the war on terror.
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A far-reaching proposal by Senate Republicans to dismantle the CIA and remove key intelligence agencies from the Pentagon ran into heavy political opposition
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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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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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Chicago Tribune - The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee proposed sweeping changes Sunday that would dismantle the CIA and remove several of the United States' largest intelligence agencies from the control of the Pentagon.
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Porter Goss has unleashed a âblood purgeâ at the CIA to rid the agency of its subversive elements. This comes as no surprise. Bushâs problems with the agency go back to 9-11 and peaked just prior to the Iraq war.
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President Bush has ordered up new measures to bolster the CIA in combating weapons of mass destruction and other threats, directing an agency that lawmakers have accused of engaging in "group think" to present "diverse views" to policy-makers.