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Saying the U.S. mission in Afghanistan is in "serious jeopardy," the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee says more troops are needed to combat an increasingly potent Taliban.
A divided Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved a revised version of the nation's major counterterrorism law, after intelligence and law enforcement officials assured lawmakers that counterterrorism operations would not be harmed.
The chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee says the Bush administration may have broken the law if it ordered the CIA to conceal the existence of a counterterrorism program.
The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee says intelligence gathering in Iran is difficult and spotty.
The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday disputed a newspaper report that the National Security Agency conducted more widespread intercepts of private U.S. conversations in 2008 and early this year than has been acknowledged.
The top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee is calling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's accusation that the CIA misled her and others about waterboarding a massive attack on the nation's intelligence community.
The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee says she hopes the public outrage over Bush-era interrogation methods subsides so Congress can calmly investigate the issue.
Senate Democratic leaders don't appear inclined to appoint an independent panel to investigate the Bush administration's interrogation program before the Senate Intelligence Committee completes its own probe near the end of the year.
The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday that the panel would hold a hearing to get to the bottom of reports that the National Security Agency improperly tapped into the domestic communications of American citizens.
CIA Director Leon Panetta has tapped a retired Republican senator to help guide him through a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into the agency's Bush-era interrogation and detention practices.
Anecdotes, news reports and even the many times "24" agent Jack Bauer has saved the country on TV aren't enough to convince the Senate Intelligence Committee that the CIA's harsh interrogation methods actually work.
A congressional aide says the Senate Intelligence Committee has given Leon Panetta the thumbs up to head the CIA.
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.
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed retired Adm. Dennis Blair as the new national intelligence director.
While eager to find out more about the Bush administration's harsh interrogation and detainee policies, Senate Democrats are hinting that spy agency veterans need not fear that the groundwork is being laid for punishing those who carried them out.
The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee accused the White House on Wednesday of withholding documents showing it authorized the CIA to use waterboarding and other tough interrogation tactics on suspected terrorists.
A new Senate report gives a fresh shot of adrenaline to the election-year debate over the Iraq war. President Bush and his top officials deliberately misrepresented secret intelligence to make the case to invade Iraq, according to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
The Senate Intelligence Committee moved on Thursday to ban the CIA from using private contractors to interrogate detainees.
CIA Director Michael Hayden, testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee behind closed doors Tuesday, failed to answer central questions about the destruction of secret videotapes showing harsh interrogation of terror suspects, the panel's chairman said.
The Senate Intelligence Committee voted Thursday to strengthen court oversight of government surveillance while protecting telecommunications companies from civil lawsuits for tapping Americans' phones and computers without court approval.
Democrats want the National Security Agency to stick to snooping, not politicking.
After weeks of negotiations and closed door meetings, moderate Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee will propose legislation giving President Bush's controversial surveillance program the force of law.
The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, breaking ranks with the president on domestic eavesdropping, says he wants a special court to oversee the program.
Durbin: Cheney's Secret Program 'Could Be Illegal'The NYTimes reported former Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the C.I.A. to withhold information from Congress about a secret counterterrorism program.
Poppin-Jay. by Clarice Feldman. May 09, 2009Jay Rockefeller is a consummate liar. Some years ago he was caught out planning to do something never done in modern history -- turn the Senate Intelligence Committee into a partisan tool.
Chas Freeman Declines Obama's Offer to Head Intell. Council. by Hana Levi Julian. Adar 15, 5769. 03/11/09, 1:29 AM(IsraelNN.com) Charles (Chas) Freeman, chosen by U.S. President Barack Obama to head the White House National Intelligence Council, has turned down the job.
The New Thought Police: The NSA Wants to Know How You Think— Maybe Even What You ThinkThe National Security Agency (NSA) is developing a tool that George Orwell's Thought Police might have found useful: an artificial intelligence system designed to gain insight into what people are thinking.
Top Two Officials In U.S. Intelligence Expect to Lose JobsThe nation's top two intelligence officers expect to be replaced by President-elect Barack Obama early in his administration, according to senior intelligence officials.
Top US Spy Boss: Investigation Underway into ABC News ReportThe inspector general for the National Security Agency, the NSA, has begun an investigation into allegations that US intelligence operators intercepted, recorded and shared intimate phone calls and "phone sex" between hundreds of American citizens, the Director of National Intell …
Pat Roberts: George W. Bush's Private Poodle Knows the Right TricksMr. Rockefeller said the White House had not offered enough information to make an informed judgment on the program possible.
We Did Not' Exaggerate Iraq Threat, Just Made 'Errors' In Presentation says Douglas FeithEarlier today, former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith refused to appear at a House Judiciary hearing. But while he didn't have the time for Congress, he did have the time to appear on Bill Bennett's radio show this morning.
[President] Bush never lied to us about Iraq: The administration simply got bad intelligence. Critics are wrong to assert deception. By James Kirchick. June 16, 2008Nearly every prominent Democrat in the country has repeated some version of this charge, and the notion that the Bush administration deceived the American people has become the accepted narrative of how we went to war.
Senate committee: Bush Knew Iraq Claims Were Not TrueA long-awaited Senate Select Intelligence Committee report made public Thursday concludes that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney made public statements to promote an invasion of Iraq that they knew at the time were not supported by available intelligence.
Senate Panel Finds Iraq Intelligence ExaggerationsIn a report long delayed by partisan squabbling, the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday accused President Bush and Vice President Cheney of taking the country to war in Iraq by exaggerating evidence of links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda in the emotional aftermath of …
Domestic spying far outpaces terrorism prosecutions: As more Americans are watched, fewer cases are madeThe number of Americans being secretly wiretapped or having their financial and other records reviewed by the government has continued to increase as officials aggressively use powers approved after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Government in SecretThe Yoo memo is just one example of Bush's hidden laws. It's a given in our democracy that laws should be a matter of public record.Keeping the law secret doesn't enhance national security, but it does give the government free rein to operate without oversight or accountability.
Injecting "terror" into the campaign.As Campaign 2008 reaches a critical point, George W. Bush's top intelligence officials are raising new alarms about a revitalized al-Qaeda recruiting Westerners, possibly including Americans, to carry out terror attacks inside the United States.
Companies Seeking Immunity Donate to SenatorExecutives at the two biggest phone companies contributed more than $42,000 in political donations to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV this year while seeking his support for legal immunity for businesses participating in National Security Agency eavesdropping.
Does Senate FISA bill immunize FBI 'black-bag jobs'?A few decades ago, the FBI regularly conducted "black-bag jobs" that involved sneaking into homes, hotel rooms and offices with the cooperation of the building's owner or even a neighbor with a spare key. Locks were picked otherwise.
With Democrats Like These ...Every now and then, we are tempted to double-check that the Democrats actually won control of Congress last year. It was particularly hard to tell this week.
CIA report on 9/11 due Labor DayThe CIA has been ordered to release by Labor Day a declassified summary of an internal report on the agency's performance prior to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, possibly shedding light on whether senior officials made fundamental lapses in judgment.
Mining of Data Prompted Fight Over SpyingMr. Gonzales insisted before the Senate this week that the 2004 dispute did not involve the Terrorist Surveillance Program "confirmed" by President Bush, who has acknowledged eavesdropping without warrants but has never acknowledged the data mining.
The torture mystery'We do not torture," President Bush says. Yet that oft-repeated assurance has been followed by an unspoken "but" in reference to interrogation of suspected terrorists by the CIA.
Gonzales Comes Under New Bipartisan Attack in SenateLawmakers voiced incredulity and disdain at Gonzales's answers to questions about the firing of nine U.S. attorneys and the description of a visit he made as White House counsel to a hospitalized Attorney General John Ashcroft in 2004.
Bush puts CIA prisons under Geneva ConventionsU.S. President George W. Bush, under fire over the treatment of CIA detainees, on Friday ordered that agency interrogators comply with the Geneva Conventions against torture.
Editorial: Do we use torture?Is the CIA doing the United States more harm than good by interrogating suspected terrorists in secret prisons overseas? Inquiring minds on the Senate Intelligence Committee want to know, and they're entitled to an answer.
The CIA's Top LawyerA CIA lawyer who played a key role in approving some of the agency's most controversial post-9/11 operations—including the use of interrogation techniques that have been criticized as torture—is scheduled to be grilled in public next week when he appears before the Senate I …
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