Topic: Leon Panetta
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bill Clinton ran a pretty loose White House with long, inconclusive meetings -- until Leon Panetta showed up as his new chief of staff.Panetta, now the CIA director who is set to be nominated as defense secretary on ...
"CIA Director Leon Panetta testified before a congressional committee that he was told former vice president Dick Cheney ORDERED THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY TO WITHHOLD INFORMATION ABOUT A SECRET COUNTERTERRORISM PROGRAM FROM CONGRESS, the chairman (actually, Feinstein is a chairwoman) of the Senate ...
President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill designed to strengthen oversight of sensitive spy operations. Top intelligence officials in the Bush administration had been faulted for not fully informing Congress about highly classified programs, such as a secret plan to ...
Lunch with the Central Intelligence Agency is always interesting, although five gorillas staring at me intently didn't help my digestion.. President Obama's pick of Leon Panetta as the agency's new director was controversial because he didn't come from an intelligence background- upsetting ...
CIA director Leon Panetta warned in an article published Saturday that the country's premier intelligence agency has been hurt by a climate of recriminations in Congress over its past practices. "I've become increasingly concerned that the focus on the past, especially in ...
New disclosures suggest secret CIA program borne of rash decision-making More information is being learned about a CIA program created after 9/11 that was kept hidden from Congress until last month when the agencys director, Leon Panetta, first learned of it and ...
Panetta canceled CIA effort to find, kill al-Qaida leaders up closeA secret intelligence program canceled by CIA Director Leon Panetta in June was meant to find and then capture or kill al-Qaida leaders at close range rather than target them with air ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA withheld information from the U.S. Congress about a secret counterterrorism program on orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, a senator said on Sunday as Democrats called for an investigation.Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein told " Fox News ...
House Democrats say CIA misled Congress; White House threatens veto on eve of intel debateCIA Director Leon Panetta told Congress last month that senior CIA officials have concealed significant actions and misled lawmakers repeatedly since 2001, the chairman and other members of ...
CIA says Panetta never said he believes Cheney wants the US to be attacked againThe CIA said Tuesday that its director, Leon Panetta, does not believe former Vice President Dick Cheney wants the U.S. to be attacked again. "He did not say ...
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