WASHINGTON — John Brennan took over Friday as director of the CIA, the finishing touch on President Barack Obama's national security team for hi...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Thursday he would vote for CIA director nominee John Brennan because Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) filibuster...

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans took the floor on Wednesday, launching an historic filibuster in an attempt to extract an answer from the White House...

The Senate Intelligence Committee put John Brennan one step closer to leading the CIA on Tuesday, even though the White House has missed a deadline ab...

By RICHARD LARDNER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — John Brennan is one step closer to becoming director of the CIA. The Senate Intelligence...

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has agreed to provide the Senate Intelligence Committee access to all opinions authored by the Justice Departme...

By RICHARD LARDNER, The ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- The Senate Intelligence Committee is scheduled to vote on President Barack Obama's pick to l...

Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) are threatening to delay a vote on John Brennan as new CIA Director, citing the need for more ...

(Updates with Senator Wyden comments) WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The Senate intelligence committee on Wednesday postponed until ne...

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The new White House chief of staff says there's "a grave concern" about delays in assembling President Barac...

* Political sparring over Brennan becoming public * Feinstein says Brennan will be "capable CIA director" * Republicans ...

President Barack Obama wants his deputy national security advisor for homeland security and counterterrorism, John Brennan, to serve as the next direc...

One of the mysteries of America's war on terror is where it has used to CIA to kill alleged enemies, such as the strike against Osama Bin Laden in Pak...

WASHINGTON -- John Brennan, President Barack Obama's nominee to head up the CIA, told senators Thursday he "had some visibility" into the "enhanced in...

WASHINGTON -- Code Pink protesters disrupted the hearings on the nomination of John Brennan to lead the CIA on Thursday, forcing Senate Intelligence C...

WASHINGTON -- Smarting under the U.S. drone attacks it calls a violation of its sovereignty and international law, Pakistan has threatened to withhold...

John Brennan's confirmation hearings begin February 7. That means he has a week to get his story straight on torture, a topic that will most certainly...

Torture foes are seizing on President Barack Obama's nomination of John Brennan for CIA chief to push for the release of a Senate Intelligence Committ...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's choice of John Brennan to be the next CIA director hit a snag Tuesday as a Republican senator threatened t...

When word got out in November 2008 that president-elect Barack Obama was considering CIA veteran John Brennan to head the spy agency, human rights adv...

President Obama has nominated counterterrorism adviser John Brennan as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Brennan, a 25-year veteran of ...