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Los Angeles Times
April 17, 2018
U.S. senators are clamoring to learn more about the role Gina Haspel, President Trump's nominee for CIA director, played in the torture of terrorism suspects after ... Former First Lady Barbara Bush will not seek any additional medical treatment, according to a statement released by the office of George H.W. Bush on Sunday.
WHIO
April 17, 2018
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump formally notified Congress on Tuesday that deputy CIA director Gina Haspel is his pick to lead the agency. Trump tweeted last month that he had selected Haspel to replace Mike Pompeo, who is being considered to be secretary of state. But the president had not sent the formalÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
April 17, 2018
U.S. senators are clamoring to learn more about the role Gina Haspel, President Trump's nominee for CIA director, played in the torture of terrorism suspects ... The office of Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, routinely puts out a roundup of the morning's news headlines that may or may notÃâà...
New York Times
April 17, 2018
President Trump dispatched the C.I.A. director Mike Pompeo to North Korea to meet with its leader, Kim Jong-un, in recent weeks to lay the groundwork .... States rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Asian trade pact, now anchored by Japan, which Mr. Trump pulled out of during his first week in office.
The-review
April 17, 2018
A former head of the Central Intelligence Agency says 2017 saw a year of great change and disruption in the world, but 2018 will be a year of ... Hayden noted that President Donald Trump's short time in office has been one of constant change, from criticizing NATO to moving the U.S. embassy in Israel fromÃâà...
NPR
April 14, 2018
President Trump pardoned Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice related to the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame's ... That CIA officer was Valerie Plame, and she joins us now. ... I mean, the news of the past week of the FBI's raid on his lawyer's office was interesting.
Chattanooga Times Free Press
April 13, 2018
Commercial Insurance Associates (CIA), an independent insurance agency that offers property and casualty insurance through 134 insurance companies or facilities to nearly 1,400 business clients across the county, marked the opening of its new office at 1210 Premier Drive, Suite 208, on Thursday with aÃâà...
New York Times
April 13, 2018
But federal law bars the disclosure of the identities of C.I.A. officials in certain circumstances and the leak prompted a special prosecutor investigation. ... It was probably the harshest thing Mr. Cheney ever said to him during their eight years in office together and was meant to attack Mr. Bush's sense ofÃâà...
FedScoop
April 11, 2018
FBI CIO Gordon Bitko, who was on a panel with Edwards at the summit, said the bureau has gone down a similar road as the CIA to address similar challenges with its56 distributed field offices. “They've all thought of themselves over the years as their own IT shops because they all have very specific,Ãâà...
The Hill
April 11, 2018
It is impossible to tell everyone about what the CIA does, so instead the CIA tells this select group of senators the classified information so the committee can do appropriate oversight. As the director of the Office of Congressional Affairs at CIA from 2009 to 2011, I witnessed this process work firsthand.
New York Magazine
April 5, 2018
When asked about his plan for winning the war on terrorism during an interview with Fox & Friends in December 2015, Donald Trump suggested that U.S. forces needed to start targeting terrorists' family members. “We're fighting a very politically correct war,” Trump said. “And the other thing with theÃâà...
Glamour
March 28, 2018
When Abigail Spanberger decided to run for Congress in Virginia's Seventh District, step one was telling loved ones—including her three daughters—she was entering politics. Step two: dropping the bomb that she used to be in the CIA, before news broke. “I had concerns my girls would be at school andÃâà...
CNN
March 20, 2018
Chuck Grassley blocked President Donald Trump's nominee to be the intelligence community's top lawyer, the General Counsel of the Office of the ... up in a debate over her involvement in the Bush-era interrogation programs, to be the next CIA director -- both of whom still face confirmation hearings.
ThinkProgress
March 20, 2018
The Central Intelligence Agency was still defending, as late as last year, a 2005 decision by Gina Haspel and her former boss, Jose Rodriguez, to destroy ... The CIA's Office of General Counsel reviewed the tapes in late 2002 and determined that “intelligence reporting” — cables from CIA field sites to itsÃâà...
MyAJC
March 20, 2018
Susan Pompeo, the wife of Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo, has taken an unusually active and prominent role at the organization, and has ... at the CIA, uses office space on the seventh-floor headquarters in Langley, Virginia, where senior leaders, including the director, have their offices.
Media Matters for America
March 19, 2018
President Trump has been attacking and criticizing the American intelligence community, the people who are responsible for keeping us safe, since he came into office. This is part of a trend. It's been ongoing for over a year, and one has to ask why is he consistently doing this? Consistently attacking theÃâà...
Press Herald
March 19, 2018
Rand Paul said Sunday that he would “do everything to stop” President Trump's nominations of Mike Pompeo for secretary of state and Gina Haspel for CIA director, but conceded that he may not be able to stop them. Paul, R-Ky., said on CBS' “Face the Nation” that he wants someone who's not “advocatingÃâà...
CNN
March 17, 2018
Washington (CNN) Former CIA Director John Brennan blasted President Donald Trump on Saturday after he tweeted about the firing of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, calling the President ... America will triumph over you," Brennan, who was CIA head under President Barack Obama, tweeted.
FedTech Magazine
December 31, 1999
Each office wants to manage its own IT, Edwards said, so the CIA started to look at its different mission areas as franchisees, each with about five IT staff ... While Bitko said the FBI has not gone down the CIA's route on franchisees, by delivering a core platform of IT services to field offices, he said the FBIÃâà...
NPR
December 31, 1999
"During Gina Haspel's long tenure at the CIA, she oversaw the agency's torture and rendition program, one of the bleakest chapters in our nation's history. No one who had a hand in torturing individuals deserves to ever hold public office again, let alone lead an agency," said Raha Wala, director of nationalÃâà...
The New Yorker
December 31, 1999
Mike Pompeo didn't always seem content playing the traditional role of a C.I.A. director. The former congressman wanted to be close to President Trump after he was confirmed by the Senate, so he moved into a small office on the fourth floor of the Old Executive Office Building, next to the White House,Ãâà...
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