CIA director meets with Indian security officials

CIA Director Leon Panetta, in his first overseas trip since taking office, met Thursday with India's home minister to discuss intelligence sharing and security in the wake of recent unrest in neighboring Pakistan and last year's deadly Mumbai attacks, officials said.

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CIA watching for al-Qaida `succession crisis'

The U.S. is making "a big and continual push" to capture or kill al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, but his demise won't end the organization's menace, CIA Director Michael Hayden said Tuesday in an Associated Press interview. The CIA is equally interested in those jockeying to replace bin Laden in what he predicted will be a "succession crisis."

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CIA director says Iran wants to kill Americans in Iraq

CIA Director Michael Hayden said Wednesday that Iranian policy, at the highest government level, is to help kill Americans in Iraq, the boldest pronouncement of Iranian involvement by a U.S. official to date.

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CIA director to give up military uniform

CIA Director Michael Hayden announced Wednesday he will retire from the Air Force in July after 39 years in uniform, but he will continue in his intelligence post as a civilian.

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Hayden: Pakistan Border Poses Danger

The situation in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan where al-Qaida has established a safe haven presents a "clear and present danger" to the West, the CIA director said Sunday.

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White House Dismisses Tenet's Criticism

A senior White House counselor on Friday dismissed former CIA Director George Tenet's portrait of a Bush administration that rushed to war in Iraq without serious debate. "The president did wrestle with those very serious questions," Dan Bartlett said.

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No Security Clearances Revoked Over Plame

No one in the Bush administration has been stripped of security clearances over the leak of former CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity to reporters three years ago.

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CIA director Leon Panetta got into hot water with Congress, after he revealed an agency program to hunt down and kill terrorists. A recent report from the U.S. military's Joint Special Operations University argues that the CIA didn't go far enough (.pdf).

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A federal judge has ruled that CIA officials committed fraud to protect a former covert agent against an eavesdropping lawsuit and is considering sanctioning as many as six who have worked at the agency, including former CIA Director George Tenet.

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The official 9/11 story is chock full of holes in which individuals were not held responsible for their actions, the truth was continually short-circuited and much information was based on secondhand C.I.A. and Pentagon "torture" reports.

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The fight over the appointment of Leon Panetta as CIA director died down as fast as it flared up. The question now is whether Panetta, never having worked in intelligence, will figure out how espionage works fast enough to save the CIA--and keep the president out of trouble.

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NBC News reports that Leon Panetta, former chief of staff to President Clinton, will be named as President Obama's nominee to be CIA Director.

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the extreme disconnect between reality and reporting in the John Brennan controversy.

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- The top two U.S. intelligence officers are prepared to be replaced by President-elect Barack Obama soon after he takes office, intelligence officials said.

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"Why are we talking about this in the White House?" John Ashcroft nervously asked his fellow members of the National Security Council's Principals Committee.

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MANHATTAN, Kan. — CIA Director Michael Hayden said Wednesday that Iranian policy, at the highest government level, is to help kill Americans in Iraq, the boldest pronouncement of Iranian involvement by a U.S. official to date.

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Rep. Jane Harman's (D-Calif.) recommendation to then-CIA General Counsel Scott W. Muller that the tapes not be destroyed was reported earlier.

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