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...issue in the pair's long-running tension is the right to name the chief intelligence officer in any U.S. mission abroad. A typical embassy has representatives from several intel agencies - CIA, FBI, NSA, military intelligence, et al. - and one of them is designated the top dog, responsible for liaising with the intelligence agencies of the host country, among other things. For decades, that job has fallen automatically to the CIA station chief. But after the DNI was created in 2004, a question arose: As head of 16 intelligence agencies, should the DNI have the right to name someone other...
Harman, Rep. Jane • disenchantment of with NSA wiretapping policy previously championed by now that the voice of turns up in wiretapped conversations saying the kinds of things that can only cause re-election problems...
...Representative Jane Harman, a California Democrat, has found herself in the crosshairs of a potential scandal following an April 19 Congressional Quarterly story alleging Harman was caught on a 2005 or 2006 NSA wiretap offering to lobby the Justice Department to soft-pedal charges against two AIPAC officials. In exchange, Harman allegedly sought a suspected Israeli agent's help in encouraging Nancy Pelosi - then the House minority leader - to appoint Harman as House Intelligence Committee chair after the 2006 elections...
...This conversation doesn't exist." -Ending the phone conversation caught on an NSA wiretap, according to CQ's April 19, 2009 story...
...believe the program is essential to U.S. national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities." -Defending the NSA's wiretapping program. (TIME...