Senate Intelligence Committee

GOP Senators Pull Out Of Inquiry Into CIA Program

Washington Post | Peter Finn | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

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Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said Friday that they will no longer participate in an investigation into the Bush administ...

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CIA Wants DOJ To Investigate Assassinations Leak

Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cia, Blackwater, Department of Justice, Valerie Plame, Leon Panetta, Senate Intelligence Committee, Kit Bond, Al Qaeda, Politics News

The CIA is none too happy about the recent disclosure of apparently inchoate "significant actions" canceled by Director Leon Panetta. After the activi...

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The Democrats' Selective Amnesia on Assassination: Clinton Did It and Obama Does It Too

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Billy Waugh, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Wesley Clark, CIA Assassination, Seymour Hersh, Barack Obama, Senate Intelligence Committee, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Steve Coll, House Intelligence Committee, Cheney Assassination Ring, Cia, Cofer Black, Moammar Gadhafi, Jimmy Carter, Assassination, Slobodan Milosovic, Leon Panetta, C.I.A., Leon Panetta CIA, Politics News
Jeremy Scahill

The "secret" CIA assassination program that Dick Cheney allegedly concealed from Congress sounds a lot like the assassination policy implemented by President Bill Clinton.

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Increased Judicial, Legislative Oversight of Intelligence Hangs on Pending Bills

Frank Naif | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

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Frank Naif

If enacted, the State Secrets Protection Act would allow courts to review in camera Federal assertions of the state secret privilege.

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Senate Probe Could Target Cheney For Interrogation Briefings

Mother Jones | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Interrogations, Senator Carl Levin, Dick-Cheney-Interrogation, Cia, Diane Feinstein, Senate Intelligence Committee, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Enhanced Interrogations, War on Terror, Gitmo, Dick Cheney, Torture, Politics News

Dick Cheney, as vice president, was once the president of the Senate. Now he could become the target of a Senate investigation, for the Senate intelli...

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Ryan Grim

Feinstein: Senate Committee Has Completed Torture Investigation Into Two High Value Detainees

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dianne Feinstein, Senate Intelligence Committee, Torture, Politics News

The Senate intelligence committee's investigation into the treatment and interrogation of detainees is well underway, having already completed its loo...

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Senate Republicans Join Campaign Against Obama Intel Chair

Wall Street Journal | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics

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All seven Republicans on the Senate intelligence committee joined the chorus of criticism on Capitol Hill over the Obama administration's naming of a ...

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Senate To Investigate CIA's Actions Under Bush

Los Angeles Times | Greg Miller | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics

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Reporting from Washington -- The Senate Intelligence Committee is preparing to launch an investigation of the CIA's detention and interrogation progra...

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Intelligence Investigations Should Target Top Deciders

Frank Naif | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Conyers, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Senator Ron Wyden, Wyden Torture, Guantanamo Detainees, CIA Torture, Senate Intelligence Committee, Barack Obama, Gitmo, Rendition, House Intelligence Committee, Jane Mayer, Truth and Reconciliation, Nancy Pelosi, Torture, Obama Gitmo Order, Extraordinary Rendition, 100 Days, Oregon, Politics News
Frank Naif

Making sure that ordinary national security drones aren't vilified or set up to take the fall for their bosses today will strengthen tomorrow's national security.

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Feinstein: Bad Choice for Intelligence

Stephen Zunes | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dianne Feinstein, Senate Intelligence Committee, Nuclear Weapons, Iraq, George W. Bush, Politics News
Stephen Zunes

If Dianne Feinstein's real goal was to protect us from Iraq's alleged WMD's, she would have called for the withdrawal of troops once they invaded and discovered that there weren't such weapons after all.

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Dem Senator Reasserts Hard Line Against Torture After Blogger Outrage

New York Times | Scott Shane And Mark Mazzetti | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Waterboarding, Dianne Feinstein, Senate Intelligence Committee, Torture, Politics News

After some bloggers raised concerns that Senator Dianne Feinstein might be shifting her stance on the issue of American interrogation policy, the Cali...

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Congress Set For Showdown Over Destroyed CIA Tapes

ABC News | John Cochran | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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In a closed door hearing scheduled for Wednesday, Congress plans to ask why the CIA destroyed tapes showing interrogations of suspected al-Qaeda opera...

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Senate Panel Says Gaps Remain After CIA Tapes Testimony

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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CIA Director Michael Hayden, testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee behind closed doors Tuesday, failed to answer central questions about...

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CIA Director To Testify About Destroyed Videotapes

Associated Press | Pamela Hess | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: CIA Terror Interrogation Tapes Destroyed, Bush Administration Torture, CIA Interrogations, House Intelligence Committee, War on Terror, Missing CIA Torture Tapes, Cia, Michael Hayden, Silvestre Reyes, Reyes CIA Torture, CIA Torture, Enhanced Interrogations, Deleted CIA Tapes, Senate Intelligence Committee, Politics News

CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden faces two days of testimony behind closed doors at the Senate and House intelligence committees to answer questions a...

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