CIA boss asks US Muslims to aid anti-terror effort

The director of the CIA beseeched Arab-American and Muslim leaders Wednesday to join efforts to reduce the threat of terrorism in the U.S.

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Officials: CIA chief Panetta staying put

CIA Director Leon Panetta has been on the losing end of a string of high-profile battles over the agency's past missteps, stoking questions about the ultimate bureaucratic insider's future at a time when his agency is under intense public scrutiny.

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CIA defends Panetta remarks about Cheney

The CIA said Tuesday that its director, Leon Panetta, does not believe former Vice President Dick Cheney wants the U.S. to be attacked again.

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CIA head says Cheney almost wishing US be attacked

CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's approach to terrorism almost suggests "he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point."

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Analysis: CIA's Panetta navigating tight course

If Leon Panetta was hired to lead the CIA because of his deft touch with Congress, he's been earning his paycheck.

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Panetta: Location of all Pakistan nukes not known

CIA Director Leon Panetta said Monday the United States does not know the location of all of Pakistan's nuclear weapons but is confident the country has them secure.

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Panetta: CIA to limit countries getting detainees

President Barack Obama may limit the countries to which the U.S. sends alleged terrorists to those with good human-rights records, and will be less inclined to hand prisoners over in general, to help make sure they are not tortured or abused, CIA Director Leon Panetta said Wednesday.

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Panetta promises honesty as CIA director

CIA Director Leon Panetta promised honest leadership as he took the helm Thursday of an agency with a public image tarnished by allegations of torture and faulty intelligence estimates.

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Senate panel gives Panetta OK for CIA post

A congressional aide says the Senate Intelligence Committee has given Leon Panetta the thumbs up to head the CIA.

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CIA nominee Panetta faces questioning by senators

The Senate Intelligence Committee is taking up the last of President Barack Obama's nominee for a high-profile national security post, the surprising pick of Leon Panetta to head the CIA.

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Panetta has unusual portfolio to be CIA chief

Leon Panetta, Barack Obama's surprise choice to head the CIA, clearly isn't someone with much hands-on national security or intelligence experience. But no one disputes that the man knows government.

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NBC: Obama picks Panetta for CIA director

NBC News has learned that President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Clinton chief of staff Leon Panetta to be his CIA director.

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Israeli intelligence was involved in editing and creating the sanitized version of information about Iran's recently revealed secret uranium enrichment facility near Qom.

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Score one for the case officers targeted by President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder's reinvestigation of interrogators that the Department of Justice previously decided shouldn't be prosecuted.

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The Central Intelligence Agency is launching The Center on Climate Change and National Security as the focal point for its work on the subject. The Center is a small unit led by senior specialists from the Directorate of Intelligence and the Directorate of Science and Technology.

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The Department of Homeland Security/Customs and Border Patrol is training teenage scouts how to conduct armed raids on terrorists and drug dealers.

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Cheney is not wrong when he asserts that it is a dangerous precedent when a change in power in Washington leads a successor government not just to change the policies of its predecessors but to invoke the criminal justice system against them. Leon Panetta, the conscientious d …

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After pledging during last year's presidential campaign, and as recently as the spring, not to revisit the past, the Obama administration, in the person of Attorney General Eric H.

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If we briefed Congress on every single foreign intelligence-collection activity," one former CIA director tells me, "we'd be a very small intelligence agency attached to a massive congressional briefing agency."

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Democrat Jan Schakowsky of Illinois proved last week why President Barack Obama was right to threaten to veto a bill that could give more politicians access to classified briefings about covert CIA operations.

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Let's review.

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By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer – 45 mins ago WASHINGTON – The House Intelligence Committee has asked the CIA to provide documents about the now-canceled program to target al-Qaida leaders, congressional officials said Tuesday.

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The Bush administration built an unprecedented surveillance operation to pull in mountains of information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged, a team of federal inspectors general reported Friday, questioning the legal basis for the effort but shielding …

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[Manila, Philippines--] I was a bit surprised when I learned that Leon Panetta, CIA head and chief US spy was received by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, RP's head of state, for an hour-long "social call." It all sounds a bit fishy to me.

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CIA Director Leon Panetta was told of the program's existence on June 23, four months after he took over the agency. Within 24 hours, he had canceled it and briefed the congressional oversight committees of its existence.

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The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency's director, Leon E.

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House Democrats said yesterday that they expect to launch a formal investigation into a secret CIA program that was not disclosed to Congress for almost eight years, a probe that could entangle senior Bush administration officials who oversaw intelligence issues.

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The CIA withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress during the Bush administration on direct orders from then-Vice President Dick Cheney, current CIA director Leon Panetta told members of Congress, a knowledgeable source confirmed to CNN.

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If this were the democracy that the Founding Fathers thought they were creating, word from CIA Director Leon Panetta that his agency had lied to Congress and specifically that it had lied repeatedly from 9-11-2001 through the end of 2008 concerning an as-yet undisclosed secret pr …

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Democrats revealed late Tuesday that the CIA Director Leon Panetta had informed Congress in late June that the spy agency had been withholding important information about a secret program begun after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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There's something so lame to consider regarding the Panetta CIA statement... an old lesson from Sister Mary Listenup " The road to hell is paved w good intentions"

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CIA director Leon Panetta says it's almost as if former vice president Dick Cheney would like to see another attack on the United States to prove he is right in criticizing President Barack Obama for abandoning the "harsh interrogation" of terrorism suspects.

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Panetta Walkback

Panetta Walkback / The Weekly Standard / The Blog The CIA walks back Panetta's comments on the former VP:

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Dick Cheney released a statement responded to CIA Director Leon Panetta's suggestion that the former vice president's criticism of Obama administration policies means Cheney is wishing for another attack. "I hope my old friend Leon was misquoted.

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CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's approach to terrorism almost suggests "he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point."

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Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi is losing the credibility battle, but that's not all she stands to lose -- her speakership is on the line.

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From Caroline Glick, deputy editor and op-ed writer for the Jerusalem Post, comes alarming news.

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