Vote on Brennan for CIA post put off
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has postponed a vote on the nomination of White House terrorism adviser John O. Brennan to be CIA director after seeing emails that showed his role in...
View ArticleSenators use CIA vote for leverage to get 10 answers on Benghazi attack
Three Republican senators issued a list of unanswered questions about the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, on Monday — the eve of a Senate committee vote on...
View ArticleSenate intelligence panel OKs Brennan nomination for CIA director
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted Tuesday to confirm John O. Brennan, the Obama administration's top counterterrorism adviser, as the next CIA director, after the White House released a...
View ArticleCongress takes action against NSA phone snooping; security argument fails
Congress took the first steps Thursday to restrain the NSA's phone-snooping program, with Sen. Dianne Feinstein laying out details of a bill that require phone data be deleted more quickly and agents...
View ArticleBENGHAZI WAS PREVENTABLE: Hillary Clinton cited for major security lapses
The 2012 terrorist assault on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, involved attackers from several major international terrorist networks, according to a bipartisan Senate report released...
View ArticleCURL: The drip, drip, drip of Benghazi
ANALYSIS/OPINION:Another day, another revelation on Benghazi.The "bipartisan" Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week put out a scathing report on the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on U.S....
View ArticleGen. Dempsey is a failed leader, scathing Senate review found
Congress generally has given the Pentagon a pass on failing to come to the aid of Americans in Benghazi — that is until now.Six Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, led by Vice...
View ArticleText of Feinstein statement on CIA investigations
Text of Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein's statement on the Senate floor about her committee's investigation into allegations of CIA abuse in its detention and interrogation...
View ArticleJONES: Bringing transparency to detainee treatment
The recent decision by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to declassify parts of its report on the CIA's post-Sept. 11 detention and interrogation program marks a milestone in the process of...
View ArticleDemocrats quiet on participation in Benghazi investigation
More than a week after the announcement of a House select committee to investigate the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Democrats — who have dismissed the panel as a partisan political witch hunt — have...
View ArticleIran threat rhetoric from U.S. intelligence community softer amid Obama...
The intelligence community's public statements on Iran this year in some cases are milder about the threat posed by Tehran than in previous years.The "worldwide threat assessment" has been released as...
View ArticleJames Comey date set for his testimony to Senate intel committee
Former FBI Director James B. Comey will testify in an open hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on June 8, the committee announced Thursday.The highly anticipated hearing will...
View ArticleDan Coats, intel chief: 'Never felt pressure' from Trump, White House on how...
Two of the government's top intelligence officials said Wednesday that they did not feel pressured to end investigations into Russian meddling in the November presidential election, though fired FBI...
View ArticleJames Comey says Trump reasons for firing were 'lies'
Capping one of the most anticipated Capitol Hill confrontations in years, fired FBI Director James B. Comey told a Senate panel on Thursday that he hopes there are Oval Office tapes to back up his...
View ArticleJeh Johnson: Dems declined help from Department of Homeland Security after...
President Obama's homeland security chief on Wednesday told a House panel investigating Russian meddling in the November election that, much to his disappointment, Democratic National Committee...
View ArticleGina Haspel says she won't allow CIA to do interrogations
Gina Haspel, President Trump's pick to head the CIA, emerged from a lifetime of undercover work to bat back allegations of torture and promise lawmakers Wednesday that she would fight any effort to...
View ArticleSenate Intelligence Committee affirms Russian interference in 2016 election...
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Tuesday released a bipartisan report affirming the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election with the goal of...
View ArticleTwo secret documents disprove claims about Paul Manafort, his attorney says
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's final report on Russian election interference contains a fundamentally inaccurate claim about Paul Manafort, his attorney says, and he claims that two...
View ArticleChinese espionage, cyber programs pose major counterintelligence threat,...
China’s human spying, cyber espionage and more recently covert disinformation operations are a “600-pound gorilla in the room” of foreign counterintelligence threats, according to a Senate report on...
View ArticleAvril Haines: China's economic woes increase danger of war
China’s significant economic problems are increasing the danger Beijing will strike out in a conflict against Taiwan or another regional adversary, the Biden administration’s director of national...
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