May 08 Former Head of NSA Nominated as CIA Chief By Admin, PBS NewsHour President Bush nominated Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden to serve as the next leader of the Central Intelligence Agency Monday, re-igniting the debate over domestic surveillance efforts that Hayden oversaw as head of the National Security Agency. Continue reading
May 05 Watch Porter Goss Resigns as Head of CIA Central Intelligence Agency Director Porter Goss resigned without reason Friday after less than two years on the job. Two intelligence experts discuss possible reasons. Continue watching
Nov 02 Senate Democrats Push for Probe Into Prewar Iraq Intelligence By PBS NewsHour The Senate this week launched a bipartisan review of the investigation into whether the administration manipulated intelligence prior to invading Iraq in 2003 after Democrats used a rare procedural move that temporarily closed the Senate. Continue reading
Dec 08 Congress Passes Sweeping Intelligence Reform By PBS NewsHour After weeks of delay and debate, the House and Senate adopted a bill this week that would dramatically overhaul the U.S. intelligence community, including creating a national intelligence director and counterterrorism center. Continue reading
Aug 27 President Bush Signs Executive Orders on Intelligence Reacting to recommendations from the panel that investigated the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Bush issued executive orders Friday increasing the CIA director's power and creating a new national counter-terrorism center. Continue reading
Jul 14 Britain’s Iraq Intelligence Was Flawed, Inquiry Finds A British inquiry reported Wednesday that the country's prewar intelligence on Iraq had "serious flaws" and was partially based on "unreliable" sources, but the report found no evidence of "deliberate distortion" on the part of the Blair government. Continue reading
Feb 02 President to Create Commission on Prewar U.S. Intelligence President Bush announced Monday that he would establish an independent bipartisan commission to examine American intelligence operations, including possible errors in prewar assessments of Iraqi weapons programs. Continue reading
Sep 18 U.S. Had "Steady Stream" of Pre-9/11 Warnings U.S. intelligence agencies provided "a modest, but relatively steady stream" of intelligence information that terrorist attacks inside the country were a possibility, a congressional investigator told lawmakers Wednesday. Continue reading