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Think Your Job's Hard? Try Being A Congressional Spy Watcher
June 14, 2013 Keeping tabs on the arm of government that constantly invokes national security to justify its opaqueness can be a frustrating experience for members of Congress.
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Justice Department To Share Secret Drone Memo With Congress
February 6, 2013 The decision to grant lawmakers access to the classified information comes a day before the president's pick to head the CIA has his confirmation hearing. The classified information details the rationale for targeted strikes against U.S. citizens believed to have links to al-Qaida.
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Talk Of Delaying Brennan Nomination 'Unfortunate,' White House Says
January 9, 2013 Republican senators have said they may try to hold up John Brennan's nomination to be CIA director until they hear more about the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi and more about his views on "enhanced interrogation."
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Counterterrorism Adviser Brennan To Be Tapped For CIA
January 7, 2013 John Brennan is one of the president's top national security aides. A veteran of the CIA, he was the agency's deputy executive director during President George W. Bush's administration. Brennan has said he opposed many of the Bush administration's policies, including the use of waterboarding.
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No Federal 'Cyberstalking' Charges Against Woman In Petraeus Affair
December 18, 2012 Paula Broadwell, whose affair with retired Gen. David Petraeus led to his resignation from the post of CIA director, will not face federal charges related to the alleged cyberstalking of another woman, according to a letter sent by the Justice Department to Broadwell's attorney.
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Report: Benghazi 'Talking Points' Watered Down By CIA, Not White House
December 4, 2012 "Officials from a cross-section of agencies" tell The Wall Street Journal that references to al-Qaida were removed to protect sources. Those sources say the White House did not drive that decision. The wording, used by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, has come under criticism.
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Lawmakers Have More Questions On Benghazi Talking Points
November 18, 2012 Speaking on NBC's Meet the Press, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said Congress had asked the White House to explain the Obama administration's talking points in the aftermath of the attack.
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Petraeus Supports White House On Post-Benghazi Accounts, Lawmakers Say
November 16, 2012 The doors were closed so the nation wasn't be able to watch. One week after his scandal-tinged resignation, former CIA Director David Petraeus fielded questions from members of both the House and Senate intelligence committees.
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FBI Agent In Petraeus Case Identified In Media Reports
November 14, 2012 Both The New York Times and CBS News identify him as Frederick Humphries, a veteran agent at the bureau who investigated the foiled millennium terrorist plot in 1999.
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Pakistani Court Did Not Connect Doctor's Conviction To Bin Laden Hunt
May 30, 2012 The Pakistani doctor who American officials say was recruited by the CIA to help in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and has since been sentenced to 33 years in prison, was convicted of having ties to a banned militant group, not for alleged treason.
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Over Pakistani Objections, U.S. Resumes Drone Strikes
April 30, 2012 The strike, which killed three suspected militants on Sunday, was carried out despite the recent demand from Pakistan's parliament that such actions be suspended.
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Al-Qaida Is Weakened, But Remains A 'Serious Threat,' Petraeus Says
September 13, 2011 "Al-Qaida and its worldwide network of affiliates and sympathizers" remain dangerous, the CIA director says.
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Pakistan Agrees To Let CIA Search Bin Laden's Compound
May 26, 2011 According to The Washington Post, the team will be looking for materials that the al-Qaida leader and his follows might have hidden at the site.
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CIA Reveals Six Oldest Classified Documents; Now We Can All Read Them
April 20, 2011 The World War I-era papers include a formula for secret ink and instructions on how to open sealed letters without anyone else knowing.
