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Peter Hoekstra - House (Select) Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Peter Hoekstra, R-MI, (L) and Committee Chairman Sylvestre Reyes, D-TX, speak to the media after CIA Director Michael Hayden briefed the Committee about the destruction of the CIA interrogation videotapes on Capitol Hill in Washington on December 12, 2007. Hayden was not at the CIA when the tapes, which allegedly depicted waterboarding, were made and subsequently destroyed.   (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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House (Select) Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Peter Hoekstra, R-MI, (L) and Committee Chairman Sylvestre Reyes, D-TX, speak to the media after CIA Director Michael Hayden briefed the Committee about the destruction of the CIA interrogation videotapes on Capitol Hill in Washington on December 12, 2007. Hayden was not at the CIA when the tapes, which allegedly depicted waterboarding, were made and subsequently destroyed. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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GOP lawmakers angered by Bush's latest intelligence reform changes

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- House Republicans Thursday walked out of a briefing by the director of national intelligence, Michael McConnell, about new rules President Bush has signed for U.S. spy agencies, complaining that details had been leaked to the media before being told to Congress.

Michigan rep fights terrorism words ban

HOLLAND, Mich., July 23 (UPI) -- The intelligence bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives includes a ban on a new policy about which words officials should use to describe terrorists.

Analysis: Terror lexicon reveals GOP split

WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- The leak of Bush administration guidelines urging U.S. officials to avoid using terms such as "jihadi" or "Islamic terrorists" to refer to al-Qaida and similar groups has exposed a fault line in Republican thinking about the U.S. war on terror.

House passes FISA bill without immunity

WASHINGTON, March 14 (UPI) -- The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed a surveillance bill that allows companies to defend themselves in court for giving the U.S. government data.

CIA closes ill-equiped European platforms

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- The CIA closed several front companies in Europe intended to build a new counter-terrorism platform because they failed to provide intelligence, a report says.

Harman, Hoekstra agree on CIA tapes probe

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Two leading U.S. House members, a Democrat and a Republican, insist Congress will probe the CIA's destruction of tapes showing interrogation of terror suspects.

Bush Iraq strategy gets double GOP whammy

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- A key Republican senator is calling for a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, while a senior GOP congressman says the U.S. strategy for Iraq may be doomed.

Republicans turn against 'No Child' act

WASHINGTON, March 15 (UPI) -- More than 50 congressional Republicans from both houses are turning away from U.S. President George Bush's No Child Left Behind Act.

Democratic staffer suspected leaker

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The Republican head of a Congressional intelligence committee has suspended a Democratic staffer on suspicion he leaked a politically damaging report.

U.N. inspectors refute U.S. Iran data

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