Topic: U.S. Senate Committee On Intelligence
US lawmakers clashed Friday over how long to extend key provisions of a controversial surveillance law, designed to help authorities thwart terrorist plots, before they expire at month's end.At issue were three core measures in the Patriot Act adopted in ...
President Barack Obama's nominee to be US spy chief, James Clapper, won unanimous senate confirmation Thursday to take over the troubled post of director of national intelligence.Lawmakers approved his nomination by "unanimous consent," a voice vote that can be scuttled ...
Republican US Senator John McCain said Monday he was blocking confirmation of President Barack Obama's nominee to be US spy chief until he received a classified report he requested 18 months ago.McCain told reporters he had no objections to James ...
Congressional report says US repeated 9/11 intelligence failures in Christmas bomb plotCongressional investigators say some of the same intelligence failures that led to the 9/11 attacks also allowed a man to slip on board a U.S.-bound jetliner with ...
Legislation that would require the president to notify Congress about any existing or new cyber security programs that involve personally identifiable information has been approved by the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, reports FederalComputerWeek.. Another agency or department will be screening PII. The ...
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday that he opposed, for now, creating an independent commission to probe harsh Bush-era interrogation techniques widely branded as torture.But Reid, who has denounced as torture the use of the near-drowning tactic called waterboarding ...
A top US Senator said Thursday that he opposed, for now, creating an independent commission to probe harsh Bush-era interrogation techniques widely branded as torture.Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who in the past has denounced the use of the near-drowning ...
Though sold as new evidence that the Bush administration misled the public about pre-Iraq war intelligence, the top Republican on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said the " former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was linked to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and ...
In a setback for privacy and civil liberties groups, the U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to protect telephone and Internet companies from lawsuits alleging illegal cooperation with government spy agencies. Because the broader bill being considered currently includes retroactive immunity for ...
Senate Committee Approves Bill Tightening Court Oversight of Gov't SurveillanceThe Senate Intelligence Committee voted Thursday to strengthen court oversight of government surveillance while protecting telecommunications companies from civil lawsuits for tapping Americans' phones and computers without court approval.The panel's ...
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