CIA needs &#39;tough love,&#39; says director nominee
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Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., said yesterday 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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Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee are mum or undecided about whether they will support President Bush&#39;s nominee to head the CIA, saying they&#39;re still
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ST. MARY'S CITY, Maryland  - The CIA's harsh questioning of terrorism suspects was legal and saved lives, the U.S. National Intelligence Director said on Wednesday, as Congress questioned a CIA lawyer about the agency's destruction of interrogation videotapes.
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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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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 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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U.S. Attorney General nominee  Alberto Gonzales came under blistering criticism on Thursday  for his role in shaping administration policies blamed for  contributing to the torture of terror suspects, which Democrats  said had put Americans at greater risk.
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Hours after the two top clandestine service officers at the CIA resigned yesterday, Director Porter J. Goss asked employees to remain loyal to the agency and rebutted allegations that he had a partisan agenda.
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AUGUST 20, 2004  - As the debate about adding a national intelligence director proceeds, two government reports are shedding new light on an existing dilemma: If DHS CIO Steven Cooper can&#39;t wrestle the agency&#39;s sprawling bureaucracy into ...
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WASHINGTON - President Bush's nominee to head the CIA promised Tuesday to shed his political past and provide precise, objective and independent intelligence to the president and Congress. But he also cautioned it may take longer than the past CIA director's estimate to hire and train all the operatives needed worldwide to combat terrorism and other threats...
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WASHINGTON  Four former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency said Monday they favor having a national intelligence director oversee the 15 federal agencies that are responsible for gathering ...
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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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New powers for the CIA director and creation of a national counterterrorism center stop short of the type of intelligence reorganization urged by the 9/11 Commission and lawmakers.
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The CIA was in turmoil last night as supporters and critics of its new director fought a bitter and very public war of words over his efforts to overhaul America&#39;s main intelligence service.
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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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The head of the CIA&#39;s analytical branch is being forced to step down, according to former intelligence officials, opening a major new chapter in a shake-up under Porter J. Goss, the agency&#39;s chief.
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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.