Mike Mcconnell

Top U.S. Intelligence Official: Gaddafi 'Will Prevail'

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government's top intelligence official fumbled the Obama administration's message Thursday about embattled Muammar Gaddafi's fa...

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CIA Wins Epic Turf Battle With Intelligence Czar

newsweek.com | Mark Hosenball | Posted 05.25.2011

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The CIA has decisively won a long-running turf fight with the director of national intelligence, the CIA's ostensible boss, over who will be the top U...

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Mike McConnell: An American Spymaster on Cyberwar

Nathan Gardels | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of America's top spymasters, Mike McConnell, spoke with me recently at his office outside Washington.

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Top Intel Officials Expect To Lose Jobs

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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The nation's top two intelligence officers expect to be replaced by President-elect Barack Obama early in his administration, according to senior inte...

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Obama Taps Veteran Dems For Pentagon, State Handover

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama's brain trust continues to grow. The president-elect has hired former Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn to help shepherd his Pe...

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US Spy Agencies Spent $47.5 Billion Last Year

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — U.S. spy agencies spent $47.5 billion in fiscal year 2008, $4 billion more than in the previous budget year, according to National ...

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Secret Afghanistan Report "Grim," But No Plans To Declassify

ABC | Posted 05.25.2011

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US intelligence analysts are putting the final touches on a secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan that reportedly describes the s...

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FISA Fight: Attack Of The Epic Failure

Martin Bosworth | Posted 05.25.2011

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This was a battle the Democrats absolutely could have won. Instead, they knuckled under and granted a corrupt and authoritarian president one of his greatest victories.

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U.S. Intel Chief Includes False Chain Email Story In Speech

LA Times | Andrew Malcolm | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over the weekend, when many of you were out doing errands instead of postponing work at your office desk by visiting The Ticket and learning lots of t...

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Intelligence Director McConnell Backtracks On Waterboarding

Thinkprogress.org | Posted 05.25.2011

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Earlier this week, The New Yorker reported that Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said that "waterboarding would be torture" if used ag...

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National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell: Waterboarding Is Torture

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.25.2011

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The nation's intelligence chief says waterboarding "would be torture" if used against him or if someone under interrogation actually was taking water ...

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US Spychief's Plan To Monitor Internet Raises Major Privacy Issues

Wall Street Journal | Siobhan Gorman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Spychief Mike McConnell is drafting a plan to protect America's cyberspace that will raise privacy issues and make the current debate over surveillanc...

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Looming: US To Release New Intelligence Estimate On Iran

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.25.2011

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National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell said Tuesday he would resign if administration officials mischaracterized or "cherry-picked" intelligenc...

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Intelligence Czar McConnell A Principal Architect Of Private Security Industry

KPIX - CBS 5 San Francisco | Frank Viviano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mike McConnell, Iraq War, Director of National Intelligence, Iraq, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cia, Private Security, Home News

Where does the buck stop? It�s a question that Washington has ignored through a long succession of scandals in Iraq, while senior offficials plead i...

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Timeline Suggests Intel Director Gave False Testimony To Congress

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell told Congress last week that a May wiretap that targeted Iraqi insurgents was delayed for 12 hours by...

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